Court Opinion

ID: 9834068
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:16:26.433852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:11.380452
License: Public Domain

On Motion to Postpone Action on Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant has filed motion for rehearing and a motion setting up that the principal defendant, Jessen, has prosecuted a writ of error from the judgment upon which the present judgment against Mitchell ⅛ based; wherefore Mitchell 'asks that action' upon his motion for rehearing herein be postponed until the writ of error in the principal case be disposed of.
In an opinion this day handed down the api>eal by writ of error has been stricken from the docket for defects in the return upon the citation in error. We do not know whether Jessen will ever perfect his writ of error. Thirty days is ample time for him to do so. It would not be proper to indefinitely postpone action upon the present motion for rehearing to await Jessen’s pleasure in further prosecution of the writ of error.
On the other hand, if he does perfect the writ and the judgment in the principal case be reversed, then the present judgment against the garnishee should be likewise reversed, for the latter judgment is dependent upon the former. Rowlett v. Lane, 43 Tex. 274; Madero v. Calzado (Tex. Civ. App.) 281 S. W. 328: New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Keith, (Tex. Com. App.) 273 S. W. 836; Nesom v. City Nat. Bank (Tex. Civ. App.) 174 S. W. 715.
It is therefore ordered that action upon the motion for rehearing herein be postponed for 30 days. If the writ of error be perfected within that time, action upon the motion for rehearing will' be further postponed until final disposition in this court of the writ of error in the principal suit.