Court Opinion

ID: 9834264
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:27:08.738157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:13.340988
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On Motion of Appellant for Rehearing.
The motion seeks to obtain a rendition of judgment instead of a remanding to the lower court. This court has had quite a number of judgments reversed by the Supreme Court, through its Commission of Appeals, where this court had rendered judgment on a finding that there was no evidence to sustain the judgment of the trial court, and we concluded that we could not exceed our statutory right, as it might be possible that the court of last resort does not recognize the authority and power of Courts of Civil Appeals to pass on the facts and render judgments on their conclusions as to such facts. Martinez v. Vidaurri (Tex. Com. App.) 275 S. W. 999; Greenlaw v. Dilworth (Tex. Com. App.) 299 S. W. 875. However, we still remember that judgments of Courts of Civil Appeals are under the statute “conclusive in all cases on the facts of the case (Rev. Stats, art. 1820), and that the statutory power is given such courts to render judgments in cases of reversal, when there is no matter of fact to be ascertained, or damages to be assessed, or the matter to .be decreed is uncertain.” We have not yet ascertained that the two cases cited and others that might be cited come within the exceptions named.
Again, it may be contended that this court has final jurisdiction and its judgments are “conclusive on the law and facts, nor shall a writ of error be allowed thereto from the Supreme Court” in all cases originating in the county court, except in certain cases specially named, but writs are constantly being granted in county court cases without regard to the subject-matter of the sui,t.
Upon reconsideration of the facts, we have concluded that the judgment of the county court is totally without facts to sustain it, and that the statutes make it our duty to render such judgment as should have been rendered in the trial court, and it 'is therefore the order of this court that the former order remanding the cause be set aside, and that judgment be here rendered that appellant recover of appellee the sum of $397.66, the amount sued for, together with 6 per cent, interest from the 30th day of January, 1929, and that appellee pay all costs in this behalf expended.