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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE-FIFTH CALLED SESSION. 225
transact all business appertaining to deceased persons, minors,
idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis and common drunkards,
including the settlement, partition and distribution of
estates of deceased persons; and to apprentice minors as provided
by Law, and the County Court or the Judge thereof shall
have power to issue all writs necessary to the enforcement of
the jurisdiction of said Court in all matters the jurisdiction of
which, by this Act, is not transferred from said Court to the
District Court of the 117th Judicial District.
SEC. 6. The Clerk of the District Court of Nueces County
shall, upon the taking effect of this Act, assume the duties of
Clerk of the 117th District Court, and shall thereafter perform
the duties of such, as if the Court had existed at the time of his
election. He shall promptly prepare a docket for the 117th
District Court, placing thereon such cases as may be filed in said
Court and as may be transferred to said Court; provided, that
no case then on trial in the 28th District Court of Nueces County
nor any case pending on appeal therefrom shall be transferred
to the docket of the Court created hereby.
SEC. 7. The letters "A" and "B" shall be placed upon the
dockets and Court papers in the respective District Courts of
Nueces County to distinguish them; "A" being used in connection
with the 28th District Court and "B" the 117th District
Court.
SEC. 8. All suits and proceedings hereafter instituted in the
District Courts of Nueces County shall be numbered consecutively,
beginning with the next number after the last file number
on the docket of the existing Court, and shall be entered
upon the dockets of said Courts in the same manner Was provided
in Section 7 of this Act.
SEC. 9. All Civil cases, the jurisdiction of which by this Act
are transferred to the Court herein created, on the docket of
the County Court of Nueces County at the time this Act becomes
effective are hereby transferred to the District Court for
the 117th Judicial District, and the Judge of the County Court
shall promptly make the proper orders transferring the same;
and all process and writs issued out of the County Court of
Nueces County in matters over which jurisdiction is hereby
transferred to the Court created hereby shall be considered
returnable to the District Court for the 117th Judicial District,
and said writs and process are hereby legalized in all respects.
Such cases so transferred shall take their numbers, on the
docket of the District Court for the 117th Judicial District, in
the order in which they are transferred, as though filed in said
Court as new cases.
SEC. 10. The respective Judges of the 28th and 117th Judicial
Districts shall from time to time, as occasion may require,
transfer cases from one to the other in order that the business
may be equally distributed among them, that the Judges of
both of said Courts may at all times be provided with cases to
be tried or otherwise considered, and that the trial of no case
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/237/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .