Court Opinion

ID: 9683083
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:22:10.535405+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:44.596148
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
This case was transferred from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth Supreme Judicial District at Dallas to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth Supreme Judicial District at Texarkana on an equalization of dockets by the Supreme Court of Texas pursuant to Article 1738, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. Appellee, Donald L. McGregor, filed his motion to dismiss the appeal in the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth Supreme Judicial District asserting that appellant Tandy had not properly perfected its appeal because the transcript of the record did not include Tandy’s original motion for new trial. The motion was overruled by the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth Supreme Judicial District at Dallas. This Court concurs in that ruling. We hold that appellant timely perfected its appeal. The transcript contains Tandy’s amended motion for new trial which bears a notation *250by the District Clerk of Dallas County that the original motion for new trial was filed on April 26, 1974, which was within ten days from April 18, 1974, the date of the judgment of the trial court. Our Supreme Court in an effort to cut the costs and time in perfecting an appeal has entered ah order related to the preparation of a transcript pursuant to Rule 376-a, Tex.R.Civ.P., stating in part the following: “Where a pleading has been substituted by the filing of an amended pleading, all pleadings prior to the amendment are classed as discarded pleadings and shall not be included in the transcript unless specially requested by counsel.” It will be presumed that the notation by the District Clerk on the amended pleadings included in the transcript as to the date of the filing of original pleadings is the correct date unless the contrary is shown upon the face of the record or by other methods provided by the Rules of Civil Procedure. Had appellee wanted to seriously contest the jurisdiction of this Court on the basis that appellant’s original motion for new trial was not timely filed, he could have requested that the transcript include the original motion for new trial and thus disclose to this Court the date of the filing of the original motion. Rule 376, Tex.R.Civ.P. The same could have been done by supplemental transcript. Rule 428, Tex.R.Civ.P.
We have examined appellee’s other assignments of error and find them unpersuasive.
Appellee’s motion for rehearing is overruled.