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GENERAL LAWS. 679
INCREASING THE CIVIL JURISDICTION OF THE COUNTY
COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY.
H. B. No. 433.] CHAPTER 206.
An Act to increase the jurisdiction of the County Court of Tarrant
County for Civil Cases and conferring upon said court criminal jurisdiction
in certain cases; to provide for the filing of civil and criminal
cases in both the County Court of Tarrant County for Civil Cases and
the County Court at Law of Tarrant County, and the transfer of cases
into and between said courts; to fix the salaries of the judges of the
County Court of Tarrant County for Civil Cases and the County Court
at Law of Tarrant County; to change the designation of said last named
courts; providing a saving clause and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. In addition to the jurisdiction heretofore conferred
by law upon the County Court of Tarrant County for
Civil Cases, of Tarrant County, Texas, and the judge thereof,
the said County Court of Tarrant County for Civil Cases shall
have jurisdiction within Tarrant County of all criminal matters
and causes, original and appellate, over which the County
Court at Law of Tarrant County now has jurisdiction, and the
jruisdiction of said courts, over such matters, within said
county, shall be concurrent, provided, that the jurisdiction of
the County Court of Tarrant County shall remain as now fixed
by law, and be in no wise affected by this Act.
SEC. 2. Upon the passage and taking effect of this Act
civil and criminal cases, within jurisdiction of such courts, may
be originally filed in either the County Court at Law of Tarrant
County, Texas, or the County Court of Tarrant County for Civil
Cases.
SEC. 3. Whenever the judges of the County Court of Tarrant
County for Civil Cases, or the judge of the County Court
at Law, may deem it expedient to the transaction of the public
business, he may transfer any cause pending in the court over
which he presides to the docket of said other court, and the
written order upon the minutes of either of said courts so transferring
such case, signed by the judge thereof making the
transfer, shall be authority for the clerk of such courts to make
transfer. Provided, further, that the commissioners' court of
said county may, within its discretion, direct the clerk of
said courts to transfer from the docket of either of said courts
any case or cases pending thereon to the docket of such other
court, and thereupon the court to which the transfer may be
made shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such cause
or causes as though the same had been originally filed therein.
SEC. 4. The judge of the County Court at Law and the judge
of the County Court of Tarrant County for Civil Cases, respectively,
shall collect the same fees provided by law for county
judges in similar cases, all of which shall be paid by them
monthly into the county treasury, the judges of said courts shall
each receive a salary of $5,000.00 annually, to be paid monthly
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15500/m1/1607/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .