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Pearson v. State

Citations

  • 315 S.W.2d 935
  • 159 Tex. 66
  • 1 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 538
  • 1958 Tex. LEXIS 584

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that appellate court’s jurisdiction over merits of a case extends no further than that of court from which the appeal is taken
  • holding that when there is no objection to an award, the court’s order directing that the award be recorded and making the same the judgment of the court does not constitute a judgment in a civil case
  • holding that the trial court was statutorily authorized to enter the judgment in the absence of objections and such judgment was not appealable because objections were not filed and so it was not considered a judgment in a civil case
  • discussing Section 7 of Art. 3266, the predecessor to section 21.061
  • “[T]he jurisdiction of the appellate court as to the merits of a case extends no further than that of the court from which the appeal is taken.”
  • the jurisdiction of an appellate court to consider “the merits of a case extends no further than that of the court from which the appeal is taken.”

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Judges: Walker, Norvell

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