Court Opinion

ID: 9766016
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:28:46.791192+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:18.492499
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
City of Houston has filed a motion for rehearing in which it asks that the cause be remanded to the trial court for retrial. The basis for the request is that the case was tried on an erroneous legal theory and that City should be permitted to offer evidence that the finding of the City Council was not arbitrary or unreasonable. In support of its request, City of Houston cites City of San Antonio v. Pigeonhole Parking of Texas, 158 Tex. 318, 311 S.W.2d 218, 223, 73 A.L.R.2d 640 (1958), in which case, having concluded that the trial court’s judgment was erroneous and should be reversed, we remanded the cause for retrial to afford the respondent an opportunity to develop its evidence. On the record before us in that case, our normal procedure would have required rendition of judgment against the respondent; but having reversed the trial court’s judgment, we were authorized by Rule 505, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, to remand instead. Therein lies the difference between that case and this.
In this case the trial court rendered and entered a correct judgment on the record before it. It is well settled that an er-rorless judgment of a trial court cannot be reversed in the interest of justice or to permit the losing party to have another trial. See Davis v. Davis, 141 Tex. 613, 175 S.W.2d 226 (1943); National Life Co. v. McKelvey, 131 Tex. 81, 113 S.W.2d 160 (1938); Texas Employers’ Ins. Ass’n v. Brandon, 126 Tex. 636, 89 S.W.2d 982 (1936).
The motion for rehearing is overruled.