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Rule 478. Answer to Question

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The Supreme Court, on receiving such record, and certified question of law, from the Court of Civil Appeals transmitting the same, shall examine such record and certified question of law, and render an opinion as in other cases; which opinion, w hen so rendered by the Supreme Court on the record and question of law presented therein, shall be final and shall be the law on the question involved until said opinion shall have been overruled by the Supreme Court or abrogated by legislative enactment, and the Court of Civil Appeals shall be governed thereby. After the question is decided, the Supreme Court shall immediately notify the lower court of its decision.

Source: Art. 1759, unchanged.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.

Repealed by order of April 10, 1986, eff. Sept. 1, 1986.