Court Opinion

ID: 9828774
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:43:50.212158+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:53.024752
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On Rehearing.
A reconsideration of this record on rehearing has convinced us that we have acquired no jurisdiction of this cause. The transcript discloses that judgment was rendered against appellant on June 4, 1931. The term of court at which the judgment was rendered expired on June 13, 1931. At a subsequent term appellant filed a motion which is described in the transcript only as “Motion qf Bob Dodgion.” If this motion be regarded as a motion for a new trial, it came too late, the trial court was without jurisdiction to entertain it, and all orders entered thereon are void. Ragsdale v. Green, 36 Tex. 194; Pierce v. Watkins, 114 Tex. 153, 263 S. W. 905; First National Bank v. Fox (Tex. Sup.) 39 S.W.(2d) 1085.
The motion is probably sufficient to meet the requirements of a suit in the nature of a bill of review, but no appeal was taken from the judgment overruling this motion. The judgment described in the appeal bond from which the appeal was taken is the judgment of June 4, 1931. We have acquired no jurisdiction to review that judgment, because the record does not disclose that any notice of appeal therefrom was entered at any time. By the provisions of article 2253, R. S. 1925, as amended by Acts 1927, c. 15, § 1 (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 2253), notice of appeal must be given in open court within two days after final judgment or judgment overruling the motion for a new trial. By article 2281 the transcript must contain notice of appeal. •
Since the transcript before us does not disclose any notice of appeal from the judgment of June 4th, we have acquired no jurisdiction to review same, and, since no appeal was perfected from the judgment at the subsequent term on appellant’s motion, we have acquired no jurisdiction to review that judgment, even though it be regarded as a judgment in an independent suit in the nature of a bill of review. We are therefore without authority to enter any order herein save one of dismissal.
It is accordingly ordered that the motion for rehearing be granted; that the judgment heretofore entered herein be set aside, and, in lieu thereof, that judgment be entered dismissing the appeal for want of jurisdiction.