Court Opinion

ID: 9831978
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:31:05.318175+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:40.412792
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
[6] There is no merit in appellees’ contention that the second notice of appeal is void. The trial court had control of its judgment during the term, and having entertained a motion for new trial after the first notice of appeal was given, and entered an order overruling same, the notice of appeal then given was valid. Sass & Cohen v. Hirschfield, 23 Tex. Civ. App. 1, 56 S. W. 602.
[7, 8] As the transcript was filed during vacation, the presumption cannot be indulged that the clerk filed it by order of the court; but appellee cannot excuse his laches by saying that he called attention to the time of filing transcript as soon as he could after appellant’s briefs were filed. He does not deny that he received notice as provided by rule 7b (142 S. W. xi) of the filing of the transcript, yet for more than seven months he failed to file any motion to dismiss. We therefore conclude that, if we should be in error in computing the time from the second notice of appeal, then appellee waived the late filing of the transcript.
We adhere to our decision upon the merits of the case, and overrule the motion for rehearing.