¶1On considering the laws regulating the subject-matter, and especially the provision authorizing the clerk of the District Court to require security for his costs, we are of the opinion that the cleric is not entitled to demand payment of his costs as a condition precedent to his delivery of the transcript to either of the parties who may demand it for the purpose of traus-, mission to the Supreme Court; and it is ordered that the mandamus he made peremptory.
7 Tex. 460
v. Costley
Decided July 1, 1851
Texas Supreme Court · decided 1851-07-01
This was an application to the Supreme Court for a mandamus to the cleric of a District Court, John M. Costley, to compel him to deliver the transcript hi a certain case.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1936
2 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1851-07-01
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