Court Opinion

ID: 9767471
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:20:20.337785+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:31.347004
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
After filing a motion for rehearing of the cause, Jackson asked this Court to allow him to supplement the transcript in the case. Jackson’s attorney said that during the course of preparing his motion for rehearing, it was noticed that several important items were missing from the transcript, including his latest amended petition and response to the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. The burden is on an appellant or other party seeking review to see that a sufficient record is presented to an appellate court to show error requiring reversal. General Life and Accident Ins. Co. v. Handy, 766 S.W.2d 370 (Tex.App.—El Paso 1989, n.w.h.); Tex.R.App.P. 50(d). While we have wide discretion to permit supplementation of the transcript so as to include omitted matter, ordinarily the discretion should not be exercised in the absence of some unusual circumstance to allow omitted matter be filed after we issue a decision. To grant such permission is contrary to the spirit and purposes of Tex. R.App.P. 54(a) (setting forth the appellate timetable) and Tex.R.App.P. 50(d) (which places the burden upon appellant to present a sufficient record). K & S Interests v. Texas Am. Bank/Dallas, 749 S.W.2d 887 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1988, writ denied).
We now look to the circumstances in the present case. After our opinion was issued in this cause, Jackson, on April 12, 1989, filed his motion for rehearing. During the pendency of the motion for rehearing, Jackson, on April 17, 1989, filed his motion to supplement the transcript. In that motion, the only reason given for this Court to allow the late filing of additional matters in the transcript was that Jackson’s attorney had failed to include them in the transcript initially and had, during the course of preparing the motion for rehearing, discovered the absence of those documents. Jackson in no way has detailed how the filing of such documents might alter our decision or better serve the interests of justice. We decline to exercise our discretion so as to allow the filing of a supplemental transcript under the circumstances present because of the absence of any unusual circumstance.
We deny the motion to supplement the transcript and we overrule the motion for rehearing.