Court Opinion

ID: 9653000
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:36:47.811601+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:55.752145
License: Public Domain

ON REHEARING
Clara De La Paz Morales and Robert G. Morales ask us to consider the Deputy Sheriff’s affidavit dated April 3, 1981, “as an amendment to the Sheriff’s return” which is dated November 2, 1979. Under Tex.R.Civ.P. 118 the trial court could have permitted an amendment of the proof of service while it had jurisdiction; however, the return cannot be amended after writ of error is perfected in the Court of Civil Appeals. See Diamond Chemical Company, Inc. v. Sonoco Products Company, 437 S.W.2d 307 (Tex.Civ.App. - Corpus Christi 1968, no writ); Hance v. Cogswell, 307 S.W.2d 277 (Tex.Civ.App. - Austin 1957, no writ); Firman Leather Goods Corporation v. McDonald & Shaw, 217 S.W.2d 137 (Tex.Civ.App. - El Paso 1948, no writ); Midwest Piping & Supply Co., Inc. v. Page, 128 S.W.2d 459 (Tex.Civ.App. - Beaumont 1939, writ ref’d).
The Motion for Leave to file supplemental transcript is overruled. The Motion for Rehearing is overruled.