Court Opinion

ID: 9834350
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:30:41.344577+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:14.053097
License: Public Domain

On Motion of Appellee for a Rehearing.
It is insisted the statement in the opinion disposing of the appeal that “there was no legal reason why, had appellant seen proper to do so, it could not have dismissed its suit on the claim as it was when first presented and have maintained a new suit as it was when last presented,” is incorrect, “as (appel-lee says) more than 90 days had elapsed from the date of the original injection (February 25, 1930), and such claim would have been forever barred by the prohibitive statute (Rev. St. 1925, art. 3522) providing that suits must be instituted on rejected claims within 90 days from the date of such rejection and not thereafter.” It may be the statement is incorrect as claimed, but correcting it would not, we think, require a different disposition to be made of the appeal. As a matter of fact, the suit on the claim as it appeared to be when first rejected was not dismissed, but was continued on the claim as it appeared to be when last rejected by the amended petition filed within 90 days after such last rejection. The truth being that the claim was not bari’ed when presented for allowance, we think one of two things was necessarily true —either (1) the suit, having been commenced *973within 9.0 days after the claim was first rejected, was maintainable on the notes and appellant was entitled to prove they in fact were not barred at the time it presented the claim; or else (2) appellant by said amended petition was entitled to maintain the suit on the renewals evidenced by the letters as another and different claim from the one first presented. Hooks v. Martin (Tex. Civ. App.) 229 S. W. 592; Coles v. Kelsey, 2 Tex. 541, 47 Am. Dec. 661; Howard v. Windom, 86 Tex. 560, 26 S. W. 483.
The contention in the motion that it did not appear the claim was rejected when it was last presented is without merit. The statute (article 3517, R. S. 1925) provided that failure of an administrator to indorse on a claim whether he allowed or rejected it should operate as a rejection of the claim.
Thé motion is overruled.