Court Opinion

ID: 9764160
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:12:53.474783+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:54.331832
License: Public Domain

dissenting.
I continue to dissent on the basis that the questions presented for review have not been preserved. I have no quarrel with the very thorough discussion of the law interpreting Rule 306a. But what is happening here is not a rule interpretation but rather the conduct of the parties under the rules. The issue of an unsworn motion was not raised in the trial court. When the trial court held the hearing on the unsworn motion for new trial (and it was a “Hearing” by written order of the court), there was no objection to the form of the motion or the willingness of any party to proceed with the hearing. For all we know, objection to form of the motion may have been expressly waived at that hearing. Under our rules of procedure, it is now waived by failure to object just as surely as if it were expressly done. We are bound to presume that all things in support of the court’s order granting new trial occurred. We can not meddle in the trial court’s business because someone belatedly raised a question as to the form of a pleading.