Court Opinion

ID: 9681340
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:48:35.902893+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:33.449186
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On Motion for Rehearing
Appellant’s amended motion for" rehearing and supplemental transcript, filed, with permission of the Court, have been carefully considered. His motion to file a statement of facts, containing the evidence adduced at a hearing by the trial court on February 7, 1964, is denied. Such hearing was on appellant’s motion to correct an alleged clerical error consisting of a recital in the judgment appealed from to the effect that the court had “considered the evidence”. Where the statement of facts is incomplete or incorrect, it may be amended under Rules 428 and 429, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. We know of no provision, however, which will permit the filing of a statement of facts long after an appeal has been perfected in a cause in which no statement of facts was obtained or filed. The statement of facts which appellant now seeks to file consists of testimony adduced at the hearing on appellant’s motion to-correct a clerical error in the- Court’s judgment and not evidence adduced -at the hearing on appellees’ plea to the jurisdiction when such judgment was entered.
As shown by the supplemental transcript the trial court entered an order on February 14, 1964, overruling appellant’s motion to correct the alleged clerical error in its judgment of April 23, 1963, and in such order the court recited that it was of the opinion that the judgment entered by the court on April 23, 1963 is the same judgment that was rendered by the court and that “This Court considered evidence, statements of counsel, the pleadings and arguments in reaching its determination of the issue before it at that time, and in rendering such judgment.”
The trial court’s determination that there was no clerical error in its judgment of April 23, 1963, is binding upon this Court.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.