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Rule 499. Correspondence

TEXT

Correspondence relative to any matter before the court must be conducted with the clerk and shall not be addressed to any of the justices or to any judge of the Commission of Appeals.

Source: Texas Rule 20 (for Supreme Court), unchanged.

For context only: Art. 1760. Death of Parties No Abatement. If any party to the record in a cause pending in the Supreme Court dies after the writ of error has been served and before such cause has been decided by the Supreme Court, such cause shall not abate by such death; but the court shall proceed to adjudicate such cause and render judgment therein as if all the parties thereto were living, and such judgment shall have the same force and effect as if rendered in the life time of all the parties thereto.

AMENDMENTS

Dec. 5, 1983, eff. April 1, 1984

Repealed by order of April 10, 1986, eff.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