Court Opinion

ID: 9760367
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:50:17.473864+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:11.195031
License: Public Domain

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concurring.
The state of the record and the well-reasoned and well-analyzed majority opinion forces me to concur rather than dissent. I say this because the majority quite correctly points out:
Appellant has not raised a point of error attacking the trial court’s findings or the sufficiency of the evidence to support those findings; therefore, we must presume that the evidence adduced at the hearing on appellee’s motion for sanctions supports the trial court’s findings that appellee incurred $9800 in cost which costs were incurred because of appellant intentionally falsifying testimony and information while under oath in the discovery process. See, De Benavides v. Warren, 674 S.W.2d 353, 356 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1984, writ ref’d n.r.e.) (Trial Court’s findings of fact are binding unless challenged by point of error on appeal).
It seems highly unlikely that appellant’s false testimony would render 100% of the previously taken depositions worthless. Thus, the entire cost of taking those depositions were not lost. Consequently, the trial court requiring appellant to pay those entire costs, $8600, or suffer the sanctions was an abuse of discretion.
As previously noted, the matter is not before us in that posture. Therefore, I must concur in the result.