Court Opinion

ID: 9767808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:27:54.900002+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:33.157616
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On Appellants’ Motion to Certify Point of Dissent.
.NORVELL, Justice.
, Appellants’ motion to certify questions to the Supreme Court is denied for the following reasons:
First. This Court does not deem it advisable to present to’ the Supreme Court the issue of law involved for that Court’s adjudication in accordance with the provisions of Rule 461, R.C.P. It is not made to appear from the motion to certify that this is a case over which the Supreme Court has no' jurisdiction by writ of error. Simpson v. McDonald, 142 Tex. 444, 179 S.W.2d 239.
Second. By amendment of Rule 475, R.C.P., effective March 1, 1950, the procedure relating to conflicts of decisions was made applicable to certificates of dissent, consequently what was said by this Court in J. A. & E. D. Transport Co. v. Rusin, Tex.Civ.App., 202 S.W.2d 693, 702 (on motion to certify) is applicable to certificates of dissent. It follows then that when the motion to certify the point of dissent is overruled, the movant may then apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of ■mandamus under the provisions of Rule 475, R.C.P. The actual issuance of the writ, in the event the Supreme Court be of the opinion that the majority of the Court of Civil Appeals has not correctly stated the law upon the point is, however, contingent upon the continuing refusal of the majority to’conform its ruling and decision to that of the Supreme Court as expressed in its opinion upon the application for writ of mandamus. Despite our action in overruling the motion for rehearing, we retain authority to change our decision so as to make it conform to such opinion a may be rendered by the Supreme Court in passing upon a petition for mandamus. We, therefore, decline to certify the point' of *786dissent to the Supreme Court prior to the time such opinion is rendered.
In our opinion, the 1950 amendment to Rule 475 effected a change in the practice relating to dissents. For a statement of the history of the certified question rules prior to the 1950 amendment to Rule 475 see, Simpson v. McDonald, 142 Tex. 444, 179 S.W.2d 239; Akers v. Epperson, Tex.Civ.App. (on rehearing), 172 S.W.2d 512, 517.
Motion overruled.