Court Opinion

ID: 9827415
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:31:48.9535+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:30.995763
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
 In his motion for rehearing appellant complains of the statement in our original opinion that “the undisputed evidence fully supports all of the allegations of the plea and the findings of the trial court as to the issues pleaded in the suit in the Austin county court and determined by the judgment in that suit.” The ground of this complaint presented in the motion is:
“There is no statement of facts in the record and there was no evidence introduced at the trial of this cause, and therefore to make such a holding is without a proper foundation.”
It is true that there is no statement of facts accompanying the record, but the rule is well settled that, in the absence of a statement of facts, it will be presumed that there was evidence to sustain the fact findings of the trial court. We are hot, however, dependent upon this rule to sustain the statement in our original opinion above quoted. The answer of appellee presenting the plea of res adjudicata with the exhibits thereto attached contains certified copies of the petition and answer in the suit in Austin county, the contract on which the suit was brought, the ■charge of the court, and the verdict and judgment rendered in that suit. While it does not appear from the record that these certified copies attached to the petition were formally introduced in evidence, they were before the court and were necessarily considered by the court as a basis for his fact findings in passing upon the plea, and these findings of fact are not attacked by any assignment of error on the ground that they are without evidence to support them or are against the weight and preponderance of the evidence.
In this state of the record we think our statement that the findings therein mentioned werel supported by the undisputed evidence was fully justified. We have fully considered all of the grounds presented in appellant’s motion and none of them can be sustained.
It follows that the motion must be overruled, and it has been so ordered.
Overruled.