Court Opinion

ID: 9645952
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 21:40:52.375791+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:33.476815
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OPINION ON REHEARING
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is hereby granted. The opinion of this court will stand, with only the judgment being reformed.
In reversing the trial court’s judgment and rendering judgment for Sun Power, we did not provide for post-judgment interest. When a trial court’s judgment is erroneous the judgment of the court of appeals must take its place, and appellant is entitled to interest from the date of the erroneous judgment. See Thornal v. Cargill, Inc., 587 S.W.2d 384, 384-85 (Tex.1979). Sun Power is entitled to post-judgment interest at ten percent, Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner, 11 Tex.Reg. 4223 (1986), from the date of the trial court’s judgment, October 22, 1986.
We therefore reform the judgment of this court to read as follows:
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record and the same having been reviewed it is the opinion of the Court that there was error in the judgment of the trial court. The judgment of the trial court is reversed and is rendered that appellant is entitled to actual damages of $700.00, multiplied by two equaling $1,400.00, the sum being $2,100.00. By stipulation of the parties, appellant is awarded $9,000.00 in attorney’s fees, consisting of $7,000.00 for the initial trial and $2,000.00 for appeal to this court. Appellant is entitled to post-judgment interest at the rate of 10% per annum from the date of the trial court’s judgment, signed October 22, 1986.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the appellant recover of the appellee the sum of $11,100 together with interest at the rate of 10% per annum from October 22, 1986, until paid.
It is further ordered that appellee, John Adams, d/b/a Adams Office Machines, pay all costs in this behalf expended, for which let execution issue, and that this decision be certified below for observance.