Court Opinion

ID: 9764659
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:34:45.648022+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:59.743641
License: Public Domain

On Appellee’s Motion for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
After a review of the authorities, we have concluded that appellee’s motion for rehearing should be granted in part and that our former judgment be set aside and judgment entered dismissing the appeal. It is sp ordered.
Although the statute in question is confusing and refers to courts and proceedings therein prior to a cancellation of appellant’s driver’s license, we believe that the statute intends to refer to the mayor, justice of the peace, “police” judge and the county judge as administrative, not judicial, officers in the preliminary hearings to determine a question of fact, for instance, whether or not appellant is an habitually reckless driver, and that until and unless appellant’s license is revoked by the Department of Public Safety and appellant institutes a judicial proceeding in the County Court, as a court in conformity with art. 6687b, Sec. 31, Vernon’s Ann. Civ.St., there is no case in a court and that prior thereto, there is merely a special statutory proceeding before officers acting in an administrative, not judicial, capacity. See City of Big Spring v. Garlington, County Judge, Tex.Civ.App., 88 S.W. 2d 1095, 1097; Hardy v. City of Throckmorton, Tex.Civ.App., 62 S.W.2d 1104, 1105; 28 Tex.Jur., 606.
We conclude, therefore, that thus far there has been no case in court and certainly no final judgment rendered from which an appeal to this court is authorized.
The appeal is, therefore, dismissed.