Court Opinion

ID: 9833835
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:04:25.742249+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:07.349028
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On Motion for Rehearing.
In our original opinion, we held that by virtue of the provisions of article 3894, Rev.Civ.Statutes, appellee Prichard was entitled to retain 10 per cent, of the delinquent fees of office collected during the year 1931, as current fees of that year. By reason of the many amendments to the fee bill from year to year, we overlooked the fact that by an Act of the 4th Called Session of the 41st Legislature, c. 20, § 4, passed in the year 1930, and which became effective January 1, 1931, article 3894 of the Revised Statutes was repealed.
Accordingly the judgments of the trial court and of this court are so reformed as to award plaintiff Tarrant county a recovery as against defendant Walter Pri-chard for $2,339.40, the same being the full amount of delinquent fees collected during the year 1931, with interest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from January 1, 1932, to January 8, 1935, the date of the trial of the case in the court below, and costs of suit in the trial court, and against the defendant Standard Accident & Insurance Company, as surety, for $1,000 of that principal, with interest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent, per an-num from January 1, 1932, to January 8, 1935, and costs of suit in the trial court; *1030and judgment in favor of said surety over against said Walter Prichard, principal, for whatever it may be "required to pay on said judgment. Costs of appeal are' taxed against the defendants • in the court below, appellees here.
With the exception of the foregoing correction of our former judgment, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled. And appellees’ motion for rehearing is likewise overruled.