Court Opinion

ID: 9767726
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:24:29.208547+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:32.643883
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In our original opinion we were in error in stating that a county cannot supersede a judgment without giving a supersedeas bond. Art. 2276, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats. However, the suit here was not against the county, but against the county judge and county commissioners in their official capacities, and, therefore, such officials were not entitled to supersede the judgment with*354out giving a supersedeas bond in an amount fixed by the trial court. Ploch v. Dickison, Tex.Civ.App., 223 S.W.2d 568. The original opinion will be corrected so as to reflect the above.
Respondents have filed their motion for a rehearing, and now tender a super-sedeas bond in the sum of $14,000, the amount fixed by the trial court, signed by all respondents, together with two sureties. The bond has been approved by the District Clerk of Duval County, Texas. The supersedeas bond is now regular in every respect and entitles the respondents to have the judgment of the trial court suspended pending the appeal.
Accordingly, our order heretofore entered on November 13, 1957, requiring the County Judge and County Commissioners of Duval County to seat Felipe Valerio, Jr., as County Commissioner of Precinct No. 4, Duval County, Texas, is set aside and judgment now entered suspending the judgment of the trial court pending the appeal.