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Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as a separate court. [ 3 ]
CourtCounties Served1st Judicial District CourtJasper2nd Judicial District CourtCherokee3rd Judicial District CourtAnderson4th Judicial District CourtRuskAbout The Court. The Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas opened its first term on Monday, October 3, 1892 with Chief Justice Christopher Columbus Garrett, Associate Justice Frank A. Williams, Associate Justice H. Clay Pleasants, and Clerk S.D. Reeves.
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Constitutional amendment establishes (1) three-judge courts of civil appeals to be created by legislature and (2) chief justice and two associate justices for each court who are elected to six-year...Constitutional amendment provides courts of civil appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction co-extensive with limits of their supreme judicial districts extending to all civil cases of which distri...Constitutional amendment provides "that the decision of said courts shall be conclusive on all questions of fact brought before them on appeal or error," now referred to as the Factual Conclusivity...Legislature creates Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas (effective August 15, 1892) Legislature locates Court in Galveston (Picture of old courthouse)Legislature sets term of courts of civil appeals as commencing on first Monday in October and concluding on first Monday in July of the next yearLegislature establishes minimum-amount-in-controversy requirement that trial-court judgments must exceed $100 [$2,280 in 2007 dollars] for appeals in which county courts exercised trial-de-novo app...Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of mandamus and all other writs necessary to enforce courts' jurisdictionLegislature directs Texas Supreme Court to equalize dockets of courts of civil appeals by transferring cases.
Associate Justice Frank A. Williams becomes first judge of First Court to serve on Texas Supreme Court.
First volume of official reports for courts of civil appeals is published, The Texas Civil Appeals Reports: Cases Argued and Decided in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas; publicatio...
Legislature changes term of courts of civil appeals to commence on first Monday in October and continue to succeeding first Monday in October of the next year (effective June 7, 1927).
Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of mandamus to compel judges of county courts to proceed to trial and judgmentLegislature amends 1925 Revised Statutes article 1819 to read, "The appellate jurisdiction of the Courts of Civil Appeals shall extend to all civil cases within the limits of their respective distr...Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of mandamus in specified election matters.
Legislature authorizes courts of civil appeals to issue writs of injunction, mandamus, and prohibition to prevent enforcement of trial-court judges' orders granting injunctive relief against Railro...
Eastland Court of Civil Appeals resolves seeming conflict between 1925 Revised Statutes articles 1819 and 2249 in Stavely v. Stavely, 94 S.W.2d 545 (Tex. Civ. App.—Eastland 1936, writ dism'd) by ha...
The First Court of Appeals opened its first term in Galveston on Monday, October 3, 1892. The First District Court was moved from Galveston to Houston during its first year (1892). The appeals courts were originally created as the Courts of Civil Appeals and had jurisdiction in civil cases only.
The Texas court system is hierarchical, meaning cases start in local trial courts, then work their way up to appeals courts. State district courts have original jurisdiction, meaning that cases are generally heard by juries of citizens.
The judicial power of this State shall be vested in one Supreme Court, in one Court of Criminal Appeals, in Courts of Appeals, in District Courts, in County Courts, in Commissioners Courts, in Courts of Justices of the Peace, and in such other courts as may be provided by law.
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