Court Opinion

ID: 9772925
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:33:24.725828+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:49.388315
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SHANNON, Chief Justice,
concurring.
The Commission filed a motion with this Court pointing out that the administrative record is not properly before the Court. The Commission claimed that the judgment should be affirmed for that reason.
Texas Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 6252-13a § 19(d)(3) (Supp.1985) provides that the party seeking review of an administrative order has the duty to offer and have admitted the agency record into evidence as an exhibit. See dissenting opinion in Purolator Armored v. Railroad Comm’n of Texas, 662 S.W.2d 700 (Tex.App.1983, no writ).
On January 17, 1985, the gas company filed with this Court the transcript of the proceedings in the district court, but did not file a statement of facts. On March 21, 1985, some two months after the judgment was signed, the gas company filed with this Court a supplemental transcript containing an order of the district court directing that the administrative record in question be delivered to the Court of Appeals in its original form pursuant to Tex.R.Civ.P. 379. The administrative record was filed with this Court on the same date.
It is plain that the agency record is not properly before this Court because there is nothing to show that the agency record was admitted into evidence by the district court. Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 6252-13a § 19(d)(3). Accordingly, this Court may not evaluate and determine the gas company’s contentions on appeal. Because the agency record is not properly here, it is the duty of this Court to affirm the judgment of the district court.