Texas Rubber Co. v. Wilson
Texas Rubber Co. v. Wilson
Opinion of the Court
Defendants’ assignments of error and appeal bond are file-marked February 13, 1911, but this is an evident mistake, as the proceedings they refer to were not had until February 24, 1911, and it is conceded that the date was March 13th. The transcript was filed in this court on March 16, 1911.
It appears from the order of February 24, 1911, that the district judge was of opinion, derived from the arguments upon the motion to dismiss, that plaintiff’s amended original petition upon which the receivership had been granted was defective in that it did not allege that the Texas Rubber Company had ceased to operate its factory, and that upon his so stating plaintiff, with leave, filed a trial amendment, whereupon the court overruled the motion to dismiss the receivership, the court refusing to rule on the motion before the filing of the trial amendment.
Article 1383, Sayles’ Rev. St. 1897, allows appeal from an interlocutory order of the district court appointing a receiver, provid *711 ed said appeal be taken within 20 days from, the entry of the order. The grant of this receivership was at Ft. Stockton, the county seat of Pecos county, on the 28th day of September, 1910, while the district court of that county was in session. Brewster county being in the same judicial district, this order granting the receivership was in vacation. The transcript before us contains the order of September 28, 1910, certified as a part of the proceedings in the cause showing that it was filed with the district clerk of Brewster county on the following day. Nothing appears with reference to the time of its entry on the minutes of the court. Therefore, it is not affirmatively made to appear by the record that this appeal was perfected within 20 days from the entry of said order of September 28, 1910, which would, in any event, be necessary to enable us to exercise appellate jurisdiction over said order. However, it would seem from the cases of Baumberger v. Allen, 101 Tex. 352, 107 S. W. 526, and Walstein v. Nicholson, 47 Tex. Civ. App. 358, 105 S. W. 217, that the filing of such order, made in vacation, with the clerk of the district court, was an “entry” within the meaning of the statute. We conclude that we have no jurisdiction to review the order of September 28, 1910.
There is an expression in the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Baumberger v. Allen Case which lends some countenance to this view. The proceedings in' appeals allowed from interlocutory orders in injunctions are analogous. The court stated in the above case: “The fact that the plaintiff filed 'an amendment to his petition cannot confer the right of appeal upon the parties in this case, because it does not appear from the record that the court would have dissolved the existing injunction without the amendment, and that the continuance of' it was, in effect, the granting of a new writ.”
It does not affirmatively appear from the record before us that the judge would have sustained the motion had the amendment not been filed. The judge in fact refused to make a ruling on the motion, • and did not .rule until after the amendment was filed,- -and then overruled the motion. What he would have done had the amendment not been filed is not made certain, and, though probable, cannot be assumed. 1-Ie certainly did not dismiss the receiver and reappoint him. His action, as made and embodied in the order appealed from, was a refusal to dismiss and remove him, and from such an order an appeal is not allowed. T. & O. Lumber Co. v. Applegate, 114 S. W. 1159; Fidelity Funding Co. v. Hirschfeld, 41 Tex. Civ. App. 517, 91 S. W. 240.
We conclude that we have no jurisdiction of the matter, and therefore dismiss the appeal.
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