Case Name: Ft. Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company v. R. C. Kinder
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1907-05-25
Citations: 46 Tex. Civ. App. 522
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ft. Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company v. R. C. Kinder.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Civil Appeals Reports
Volume: 46
Pages: 522–523

Head Matter:
Ft. Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company v. R. C. Kinder.
Decided May 25, 1907.
Dismissal of Appeal—Reinstatement.
When an appeal has been dismissed on motion of appellant before appearance by appellee the case will not be reinstated upon motion of appellee in order that appellee might suggest delay and ask for the statutory damages. Appellant has the right to have his appeal dismissed before appearance by appellee.
Appeal from the District Court of Johnson County.
Tried below before Hon. O. L. Lockett.
Ho briefs.

Opinion:
BAIHEY, Chibe Justice.
On a former day of this term, to wit, May 11, 1907, at the request of appellant, we dismissed the appeal in this case, assessing the appellant with costs.
The appellee now presents a motion to reinstate the cause and be allowed to file a motion to assess ten per cent damages for delay. Appellee's motion, we think, comes too late. Before the order of dismissal was made the appellee had not appeared in the case by brief, cross-assignment of error, nor suggestion .of delay.. This being the state of the record it was the right of appellant to have it dismissed as no rights of the appellee were prejudiced, as shown by the record. Elliott's Appellate Procedure, sec. 534. That appellee intended at some time to suggest delay and ask the assessment of the ten per cent damages allowed by statute, in delay cases, is not a sufficient reason to authorize the court to reinstate the case and hear the suggestion.
The motion is refused.
Motion refused.