Court Opinion

ID: 3069821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-16 00:17:13.751381+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:07:36.049804
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In The

                               Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                           ____________________
                              NO. 09-14-00467-CV
                           ____________________

                      DOLORES FAY BOVIS, Appellant

                                        V.

     VALERIE MANIS AND SUSAN ZINNECKER POOLE, Appellees
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                On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 2
                        Montgomery County, Texas
                          Trial Cause No. 14-28329
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                                     ORDER

      The trial court signed a judgment for possession of real property on October

13, 2014. The judgment requires that appellant, Dolores Fay Bovis, file a bond in

the amount of $2100.00 to supersede the judgment. On November 19, 2014, Bovis

filed a motion seeking appellate review of the amount of security required to

supersede the judgment. See Tex. R. App. P. 24.4. In setting the supersedeas bond

in a forcible detainer suit, the county court must take into consideration the value

of rents likely to accrue during appeal, damages that may occur as the result of the

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stay during appeal, and other damages or amounts as the court may deem

appropriate. Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 24.007(a) (West 2014). Bovis has not shown

that the trial court failed to properly apply section 24.007(a). See id. Appellant’s

motion for reduction of supersedeas bond is denied.

      On November 20, 2014, Bovis filed an Emergency Motion to Stay Judgment

with a copy of the Judgment of Eviction attached. “A judgment of a county court

in an eviction suit may not under any circumstances be stayed pending appeal

unless, within 10 days of the signing of the judgment, the appellant files a

supersedeas bond in an amount set by the county court. Id. Bovis has not

demonstrated her timely compliance with the statute. Appellant’s motion for

emergency stay is denied.

      ORDER ENTERED November 20, 2014.

                                                        PER CURIAM

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

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