Court Opinion

ID: 9834495
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:38:21.477866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:16.527542
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In our original opinion, we failed to note that the motion filed in the county court by the National Radio Exchange praying for a resetting of the case on the alleged ground that the judgment rendered was not a final judgment contained a further prayer that judgment be rendered denying the defendant’s cross-action for damages since' the jury had returned a special finding that the defendant had not sustained the damages claimed in that cross-action. In 3 Texas Jurisprudence, p. 135, several decisions are cited which hold that an order overruling a motion for judgment on answers to special issues submitted to the jury is not appealable, such as Waggoner v. Gear (Tex. Civ. App.) 249 S. W. 326; General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Co. v. Looney (Tex. Civ. App.) 284 S. W. 720; Phoebus v. Connellee. (Tex. Civ. App.) 228 S. W. 982; Cortimeglia v. Herron (Tex. Civ. App.) 281 S. W. 305; Missouri-Kansas-Texas Ry. Co. v. Thomason (Tex. Civ. App.) 280 S. W. 325 (writ of error refused). Those authorities are cited in further support of the conclusions we have reached that the judgment of the county court referred to was not a final judgment, and also to show that the National Radio Exchange had no adequate legal remedy to prevent the execution of the judgment rendered by the county court against it, and that the injunctive relief prayed for was its only available remedy. If the Court of Appeals had acquired jurisdiction by appeal from the judgment of the county court, then, under the statutes and decisions, it is clear that the appellate court could have rendered judgment on the cross-action in favor of the plaintiff based on the verdict of the jury on that iésue. However, that power is given only when the Court of Appeals acquires jurisdiction ; and, under the record before us, the Court of Appeals could not have acquired jurisdiction even if an appeal had been prosecuted from the county court judgment by the National Radio Exchange, and therefore could not have proceeded to render such judgment as the trial court should have rendered on the cross-action.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.