Court Opinion

ID: 9680177
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:24:19.939156+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:26.492016
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
BARROW, Chief Justice.
Appellant has now filed, along with his motion for rehearing, a motion to amend the record by directing the clerk of the trial court to certify and transmit to our *85clerk a supplemental transcript containing the motion for summary judgment and the other three depositions considered by the trial court.
The transcript was delivered to appellant’s counsel by the district clerk and filed in our Court on February 11, 1974. Both briefs were filed by March 25th and after giving the four weeks notice required by Rule 412,1 the cause was submitted on May 1st. Oral arguments were heard, and the cause was decided on June 5, 1974.
Rule 413 provides: “A cause will be properly prepared for submission only when a transcript of the record exhibits a cause prepared for appeal in accordance with these rules, and filed in the court under the rules, with briefs of one or of both the parties. All parties will be expected, before submission, to see that the transcript of the record is properly prepared.”
It is seen that Rules 428 and 429 grant our Court wide discretion to supplement the transcript or statement of facts so as to include omitted matter. It is our opinion that such discretion should not be exercised, in the absence of some unusual circumstance, so as to permit new material to be filed after the appellate court has written its opinion and rendered its judgment. Such action would be contrary to the spirit and purpose of Rules 386 and 413 and interfere with the orderly administration of justice. Sympson v. Mor-Win Products, Inc., 501 S.W.2d 362 (Tex.Civ.App.—Fort Worth 1973, no writ); Coleman v. Pacific Employers Insurance Co., 484 S.W.2d 449 (Tex.Civ.App.—Tyler 1972, writ ref’d n. r. e.); Stanfield v. Kroll, 484 S.W.2d 603 (Tex.Civ.App.—Houston [1st] 1972, writ ref’d n. r. e.). See also Saldana v. Garcia, 155 Tex. 242, 285 S.W.2d 197 (1955).
The motion to amend the record is denied. Appellant’s motion for rehearing has been considered and is overruled.

. All references are to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.