Texas Supreme Court· 7/24/1957

McCauley v. Consolidated Underwriters

Citations

304 S.W.2d 265
157 Tex. 475
1957 Tex. LEXIS 586

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in holding that supreme court had power to revise lower-court judgment for unassigned fundamental error, recognizing power of intermediate appellate courts to do same
\[T]he Supreme Court is authorized to and will consider fundamental error even though not assigned by the parties.\
any action taken in the state court, after removal of the matter to federal court and prior to remand, is void
order in a bill of review proceeding that sets aside the prior judgment, but does not dispose of underlying case is interlocutory and not appealable
“[T]he Supreme Court is authorized to and will consider fundamental error even though not assigned by the parties.”
error is fundamental when the record shows a jurisdictional defect

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Judges: Per Curiam

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