Court Opinion

ID: 9827141
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:12:52.426232+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:36:31.450417
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On Motion for Rehearing.
The supplemental transcript now tendered in aid of appellant’s motion for rehearing of the order heretofore made on January 28, 1938, shows two file marks on appellant’s original motion for new trial, one of daté October 8, 1937, and the other of date October 14, 1937, the date of the judgment from which the appeal is prosecuted.
Even if the filing of the supplemental transcript be permitted, it would not show error in the order of dismissal of the appeal, since the original motion was overruled by operation of law on October 24th, and the amended motion was not filed until October 29th.
Furthermore, appellant fails to show any excuse for not offering to file the supplemental transcript before the motion to dismiss the appeal was acted on, notwithstanding he had notice of the filing of the motion for nearly 2 weeks before it was granted.
We are unable to concur in appellant’s contention that the notation by the trial judge on his docket that the amended motion for new trial was presented on October 31, 1936, as pointed out in our original conclusions on the motion to dismiss the appeal, should be construed as implying that he had granted leave to file the amended motion. The failure of the court to make any ruling at all on the motion might have been because the motion had been filed without leave of court. Furthermore, the supplemental transcript contains no showing that the court did in fact grant leave to file the amended motion for new trial.
Under the rules, it was incumbent upon appellant to see to it that the transcript showed jurisdiction of its appeal. And we have reached the conclusion that it has. failed to discharge that burden. We do not believe the recent decision of our Supreme Court, in Sigler v. Realty Bond & Mortgage, Company, 112 S.W.2d 180, of date January 19, 1938, not yet published [in State report] is controlling here, because of the difference in the facts involved.
Accordingly, the motion for rehearing of the order dismissing the appeal is overruled.