Court Opinion

ID: 9767622
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:22:47.00915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:32.084136
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OPINION ON REHEARING
HILL, Justice.
Dutch Garrett, Inc., Eldon E. Garrett, and Edgar E. Garrett, the appellees, present this motion for rehearing following our opinion and judgment in this cause. They present four points of error on rehearing, urging that we erred by holding that Betty Vautrain, the appellant, was entitled to notice prior to the dismissal of her lawsuit due to her failure to appear for trial, because such a notice is not required by rule 165a of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; that in any event Vautrain had waived her right to notice of a dismissal for want of prosecution; and that Vautrain was afforded due process of law because at the hearing on the motion for reinstatement she received the same hearing, with the same burden of proof, that she would have received had she been afforded notice of the court’s intention to dismiss her cause for want of prosecution.
We grant appellees’ motion for rehearing.
We sustain point of error number four on rehearing and affirm the order of the trial court in overruling Vautrain’s motion to reinstate, because we find the trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to reinstate Vautrain’s cause since she offered no evidence at the hearing on her motion to reinstate as justification for the years of delay which have occurred in this case, and since due process was satisfied when the trial court held the same hearing on her motion to reinstate that she would have received had she received notice prior to dismissal. See Knight v. Trent, 739 S.W.2d 116, 119 (Tex.App.—San Antonio 1987, no writ). See also State v. Rotello, 671 S.W.2d 507, 508 (Tex.1984). There is nothing in the record indicating Vautrain had any options she could have pursued but was not able to pursue by virtue of not *490having received notice of the hearing. See Peralta v. Heights Medical Center, Inc. - U.S. -, 108 S.Ct. 896, 898, 99 L.Ed. 2d 75 (1988). We overrule the remaining points of error on rehearing.
We set aside our prior judgment and affirm the order of the trial court overruling Yautrain’s motion to reinstate.