Court Opinion

ID: 9828980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:54:19.216997+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:56.070313
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant now, in his motion for a rehearing, for the first time discusses the case and thereby is of assistance in the solution thereof. From the statement made therein and a reference to the record we are convinced that the appeal was not taken only for delay.
Yet, appellant in the first instance did not undertake to answer appellee’s brief and ignored the request for damages. Of course, as said in Texas Furniture & Trading Co. v. Melott (Tex. Civ. App.) 186 S. W. 541, to justify the infliction of the 10 per cent, penalty for delay, it should be made to appear at the time the appeal was perfected that appellant had no reasonable ground to believe that the judgment should be reversed.
The fact that appellee filed a brief and urged the affirmance of the judgment left no good reason for us to dismiss the case for want of prosecution.
Appellant concedes that the judgment of the trial court should be affirmed, but moves that the judgment of this court be modified so as to eliminate the assessment of 10 per cent, damages for delay. Upon consideration, we conclude that the motion should be granted, and it is so ordered.