Court Opinion

ID: 9661152
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:30:38.17478+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:25.810893
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
EVANS, Justice.
In a supplemental motion for rehearing the appellees propose that Article 5537, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. should be applied to this case, thus avoiding the bar of the statute of limitations. Appellees contend that the evidence shows the McGuires were residents of the state at the time the note was executed and that their subsequent departure from the state tolled the statute of limitations notwithstanding the permanent nature of their nonresidency. Appellees cite the recent case of Dicker v. Binkley, 555 S.W.2d 495 (Tex.Civ.App.—Dallas 1977, writ filed), as authority for this proposition.
It is unnecessary to determine at this stage of the proceedings whether Article 5537 would be applicable to the facts at hand. The applicability of Article 5537 to nonresidents present in the state at the time of the inception or accrual of the cause of action has long been established. Wise v. Anderson, 359 S.W.2d 876 (Tex.1962); Stone v. Phillips, 142 Tex. 216, 176 S.W.2d 932 (1944); Gibson v. Nadel, 164 F.2d 970 (5th Cir. 1947). The appellees made no assertion of this proposition prior to their motion for rehearing, and the matter cannot be raised at this point in the proceedings. Stanfield v. Butler, 475 S.W.2d 838 (Tex.Civ.App.—Beaumont 1971, writ ref’d n. r. e.); W. T. Burton Co. v. Keown Contracting Co., 353 S.W.2d 909 (Tex.Civ.App. —Beaumont 1961, writ ref’d n. r. e.).
The motion for rehearing is denied.