Court Opinion

ID: 9833370
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:39:44.255401+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:02.078745
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant urges that article 1923, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes 1925, authorizes the continuance of a pending motion for new trial. The article reads as follows:
“Whenever a district court shall be in the midst of the trial of a cause when the time for the expiration of the term of said court arrives, the judge presiding shall have the power and may, if he deems it expedient, extend the term of said court until the conclusion of such pending trial. The extension of such term shall be shown in the minutes of the court before they are signed. If the term is extended as herein provided, no term of court in- any other county shall fail because thereof, but the term of court therein may be opened and held as provided by law when the district judge fails to appear at the opening of a term of court.”
Appellant urges that under the holding in G., C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Muse, 109 Tex. 352, 207 S. W. 897, 4 A. L. R. 613, the trial,of a cause is not concluded until the motion for new trial has been acted upon. Article 1923 was evidently passed by the Legislature .to take care of an emergency, when the end of the term of court was reached with a trial of a case then in progress, as was the case of the G., C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Muse, supra. • We do not believe that it was intended or should apply in a case like this, where judgment was rendered eight or nine days before the adjournment of the term, and the amended motion for new trial was filed four or five days before the term ended. Certainly we 'do not *652Relieve that the article is applicable in a case like this, where no motion was made in term to continue the motion for new trial till the next term, nor any order made by the court to that end. But reliance is had on a nunc pro tunc order entered' four months and twenty-one days after the end of the term in ■ which the judgment was rendered.
The motion is overruled.