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· 7/25/1979

Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Christy Jean Wand LaCoke

Citations

  • 585 S.W.2d 678
  • 22 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 520
  • 1979 Tex. LEXIS 316

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “an instrument is deemed filed in law at the time it is left with the clerk, regardless of whether the file mark gives some other date”
  • “[A]n instrument is deemed filed when it is placed in the custody or control of the clerk.”
  • original petition would have been timely file-marked but for fact that district clerk had instructed postman not to deliver mail; petition was in clerk’s “effective control”
  • instrument is deemed filed when placed in custody or control of clerk
  • “an instrument is deemed in law filed at the time it is left with the clerk, regardless of whether or not a file mark is placed on the instrument and regardless of whether the file mark gives some other date of filing”
  • “that an instrument is deemed in law filed at the time it is left with the clerk, regardless of whether or not a file mark is placed on the instrument and regardless of whether the file mark gives some other date of filing”

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Judges: Johnson

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