Court Opinion

ID: 9829471
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:20:33.030001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:01.449989
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In ably inveighing in his motion for rehearing against this court’s opinion upon original submission, appellant courteously requests the correction of what he terms an inadvertent misstatement of fact in the former opinion to the effect that the criminal complaint against appellant did not show that the appellee, Sklar, had anything to do with its filing, “whereas,” he contends, “the complaint, on its face, shows that it was made by L. H. Warneke” (Houston Live Stock Commission Company) — “the latter name being Sklar’s name according to the Assumed-Name Record of Harris County”; the request cannot be complied with, since the complaint on its face, while carrying this parenthetical insertion of the name of L. H. Warneke after Houston Live Stock Commission Company, otherwise expressly and indisputably shows precisely what paragraph (1) of this court’s former opinion on that feature recites; furthermore, a re-examination of the statement of facts verifies that there is nothing whatever in the evidence to show any authority in L. H. Warneke from L. E. Sklar, expressed or implied, to sign a complaint against any one.
Wherefore, such being the undisputed state of the record, even if the evidence did go far enough to show that Warneke had been acting as a salesman for Sklar in Harris county, it certainly went no further than that, thus leaving the resulting relationship between the two —as concerned this criminal complaint against the appellant- — to be. ruled by the principle stated in Genovese v. Butt, Tex. Com.App., 48 S.W.2d 587, cited in our former opinion, as follows: “Conceding that, as manager of a store for Butt, Kelley had implied authority to collect the debt, still such implied authority did not extend to the institution of the criminal prosecution, for the reason that a criminal prosecution is not a customary and proper means of collecting a debt due from one person to another.”
The motion for rehearing has been carefully considered, but, under the conclusion that the cause was properly decided before, it will be overruled.
Overruled.
PLEASANTS, C. J., absent.