Court Opinion

ID: 9833007
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:22:16.226676+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:55:19.837447
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On Motions for Rehearing.
' Both sides to this appeal have filed motions for rehearing, tne appellee seeking an affirmance of the trial court’s judgment, the appellants’ a • reversal and rendition in their favor “sustaining their propositions to the effect that the District Court of Austin County had no jurisdiction to render the judgment herein appealed from and that the same is void as to appellants’ said principal, Mabel Guthrie Russ, and, therefore, invalid as to them; and that this Honorable Court reverse and render such judgment in favor of appellants.”
Both motions are refused; appellants were parties to this appeal, and prosecuted the same against only so much of the trial court’s judgment as adjudged costs against them that accrued subsequent to the resignation and discharge of Mabel Guthrie Russ from the cause below on September 26 of 1939; this court’s original judgment herein sustained that contention in their favor; so that, nothing else than such costs as did so accrue subsequent to such discharge of their principal was at all involved herein.
Wherefore, the question the appellee in her motion raises, as to whether or not i't was shown that the costs incurred in the cause below equaled the $200 sum by which the bond they were sureties on itself limited their liability, is not here involved.
Furthermore, it does appear from this record that at least some of the costs so adjudged against the appellants below did accrue subsequent to the resignation and discharge of their principal, Mabel Guthrie Russ, on September 26 of 1939.
It follows from this court’s judgment that appellants are not liable for such costs, nor can they be held thereon, whatever they may amount to, hence no further order is necessary herein.
Under the conclusion that the cause was rightly decided upon original submission, both motions for rehearing will be refused.
Rehearings refused.