Court Opinion

ID: 9728994
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:22:40.751977+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:54.303847
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing

PER CURIAM.1
Pending before us is the motion for rehearing of Mabel Walter Rogers, Larry Frank Walter, co-trustee, Robert Wayne Veigel, co-trustee, Dorothy Ann Veigel Oswald, and Jo Ann Veigel Eudy (collectively referred to as the Veigels). Though the Veigels asserted several grounds in their motion, we address only one. It concerns our holding that consideration of § 114.061(b) of the Texas Property Code was moot. We so held because the provision encompassed trusts, not life estates, and the wills in question created life estates. Yet, on rehearing, the Veigels contend that they were also attempting to recoup trustee’s fees received by the bank from various inter vivos trusts. While this may have been true when the parties were in the trial court, it is not true at bar. Their first issue discussed § 114.061(b) in relation to the testamentary trust supposedly created by Charles Veigel. Nothing was said about the inter vivos trusts. Having omitted that argument from their appellants’ brief, they cannot now raise it on rehearing. Story Services, Inc. v. Ramirez, 863 S.W.2d 491, 505-06 (Tex.App.-El Paso 1993, writ denied) (holding that new issues or points of error cannot be raised on a motion for rehearing).
Accordingly, the motion for rehearing is denied.

. Chief Justice Johnson did not participate in this opinion.