Court Opinion

ID: 9660895
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Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:23:33.313823+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:23.065052
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*778On Second Motion for Rehearing.
N. M. Hubbard, Inc. has filed a second motion for rehearing in which it requests this Court to file findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to the action of this Court in denying their motion for supplemental record.
The motion filed in this Court on March 14, 1961 moved this Court to direct Hon. Lewis Dickson, Judge of the 125th District Court of Harris County, Texas, to receive and act upon, and to allow or disallow, supplemental bills of exception.
Rule 381, T.R.C.P., provides:
“(a) When an appeal is taken from a judgment rendered in a civil cause tried in either the district court, county court, or county court at law, the party appealing shall have fifty days after the rendition of final judgment or order overruling motion for new trial, if such motion is filed, or perfection of writ of error, within which to prepare and file his statement of facts and bills of exception in the trial court.
“(b) Upon application of the party appealing, the judge of the court may, in term time or vacation, for good cause shown, extend the time for filing such statement of facts and bills of exception, but the time shall not be extended in any case so as to delay the filing thereof beyond the time for filing the transcript, bills of exceptions, and statement of facts in the Court of Civil Appeals, as prescribed by these rules or as extended by said court.”
No application to extend time for filing bills of exception was timely filed. The motion shows on its face that the bills of exception have not been filed in the trial court or acted on by the trial judge. The time for filing bills of exception has long passed. In Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Perkins, Tex.Civ.App., 73 S.W. 1067, 1068, the court said:
“The office of a writ of certiorari from this court is to correct the record filed here, which is imperfect by reason of a failure to send up a correct copy of the papers on file in the trial court. It cannot be used to create a record that does not exist, and which, under the plain terms of the law, cannot be created.”
We believe the present motion falls within the spirit of the rule there discussed. The motion is denied. Archer v. Skelly Oil Co., Tex.Civ.App., 314 S.W.2d 655, error ref., n. r. e., Tex.Civ.App., 317 S.W.2d 47; Johnson v. Brown, Tex.Civ.App., 218 S.W.2d 317, error ref., n. r. e.
The second motion for rehearing is denied.