King v. Sapp

Citations

• 66 Tex. 519
• 2 S.W. 573
• 1886 Tex. LEXIS 553

Syllabus

<p>1. District judge—Disqualifications—The law enumerates the only instances in which an interest not necessarily pecuniary will disqualify a district judge. These are where he has been of counsel in the cause, or where either of the parties may be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree. (R. S., 1090.)</p> <p>2. Same—By naming those special eases where the judge's feelings may be interested, though he may not gain or lose by the result of the suit, the law doubtless intended to limit all other cases of interest to such as should be of a pecuniary nature.</p> <p>3. Right of property—Possession—Burden of proof—Agent—Where an acknowledged agent of the claimant in a trial of right of property held possession for him, the legal possession of the claimant was complete, and the burden of proof was upon the plaintiff.</p>