Court Opinion

ID: 9684130
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:47:32.766907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:53.092638
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Opinion on Rehearing
Both parties have filed motions for rehearing. Prior to disposition of his original motion for rehearing, appellant requested, and we grant, leave to file an amended motion for rehearing.
Appellant first requests that this Court grant him prejudgment interest. Appellant requested pre-judgment interest in the court below, but he failed to bring forward a point of error regarding prejudgment interest in his original brief to this Court. Appellant is raising a new point of error. An assignment of error raised for the first time in an appellant’s motion for rehearing in the Court of Appeals is too late to be considered. Lone Star Gas Co. v. Sheaner, 157 Tex. 508, 305 S.W.2d 150 (1957); Gillen v. Diadrill, Inc., 624 S.W.2d 259 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi 1981, writ dism’d) (op. on reh’g); Trice Production Co. v. Dutton Drilling Co., 333 S.W.2d 607 (Tex.Civ.App.-Houston 1960, writ ref’d n.r.e.) (op. on reh’g); Tex.R.Civ.P. 458(a). Appellant’s first point on rehearing is overruled.
In his second point, appellant contends that this Court wrongly held that he was not entitled to attorney’s fees for bringing the mandamus action. Appellant relies on Gates v. City of Dallas, 704 S.W.2d 737 (1986), in which the supreme court held that a successful litigant may recover attorney’s fees against a governmental body engaged in proprietary functions under former Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat. art. 2226 (now Tex. Civ.Prac. and Rem.Code sec. 38.001 (Vernon Supp.1986)). In prosecuting a criminal case, the State and Walker County were acting in a governmental capacity and not *498in a proprietary capacity; therefore appellant is not entitled to attorney’s fees. Appellant’s second point of error on rehearing is overruled.
Appellee’s motion, which consists of one point disagreeing with the basis for this Court’s opinion, is overruled.