Court Opinion

ID: 9676150
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:16:11.988586+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:44.675278
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*850OLIVER-PARROTT, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I reluctantly agree that, under the current state of the law, this appeal must be dismissed. I write separately to express my opinion that the rules concerning filing the transcript are unjust and should be changed.
Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 51(c), entitled “Duty of Clerk,” puts the burden on the clerk of the trial court to prepare and “immediately transmit” the transcript to the court of appeals. Yet, as the Dallas Court correctly pointed out in Nix, “the appellant still has the burden of seeing that all of the time limitations are met.” Nix v. Fraze, 752 S.W.2d 118, 120 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1988, no writ) (emphasis added). I find these two principles contradictory, and would place the burden of filing the record entirely on the party responsible for its preparation: the clerk of the trial court.
With these comments on what I perceive to be an unfair anomaly in the law, I concur in the decision to grant the appellees’ motion to dismiss this appeal.