Court Opinion

ID: 9675701
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Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:02:59.281271+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:37.599132
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On Motion for Extension of Time for Filing Motion for Rehearing
EVANS, Justice.
The appellant has requested an extension of the timé for filing his motion for rehearing.
The appellant’s motion for rehearing was due to be filed in this court on October 19, 1979. On October 30, 1979, eleven days after the due date for filing, appellant filed his request to extend the time for filing, stating that he had been assigned to try a jury case on October 7, 1979 and that the hearings in regard to the motions to enter judgment in that case, as well as his general law business on day-to-day matters, had occupied his time and prevented his timely filing of the motion for rehearing. The request for an extension of time to file is opposed by the appellee.
Rule 21c, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure provides in pertinent part as follows:
“An extension of time may be granted for late filing in a court of civil appeals of a transcript, statement of facts, motion for rehearing, or application to .the supreme court for writ of error, if a motion reasonably explaining the need therefor is filed within fifteen (15) days of the last date for filing as prescribed by the applicable rule or rules.”
The appellant’s request to extend the time for filing his motion for rehearing does not set forth “any plausable statement of circumstances” showing that his failure to file within the requisite time period was not deliberate or intentional, but was, instead, the result of some inadvertence, mistake or mischance. Meshwert v. Meshwert, 549 S.W.2d 383, 384 (Tex.1977); Brice v. Brice, 581 S.W.2d 699 (Tex.Civ.App.-Dallas 1979, no writ); Shepard v. Shepard, 572 S.W.2d 86 (Tex.Civ.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1978, writ ref’d n. r. e.). The appellant has not presented this court with his motion for rehearing, and he does not suggest to this court any specific time period within which he proposes to file a motion for rehearing. The allegations contained in the request for extension of time to file do not reasonably explain the need for the requested extension within the meaning of Rule 21c, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.
The appellant’s request for an extension of time to file his motion for rehearing is denied.