Mott v. Sourlock
Mott v. Sourlock
Opinion of the Court
This is a suit in trespass to try title. It was tried in the district court of Sabine county, and judgment entered April 20, 1915. The district court for that term adjourned by statute April 24, 1915. Appeal bond was filed and approved May 13, 1915. The statement of facts was filed in the trial court July 24, 1915, 92 days after adjournment, and reached this court August 13, 1915, 91 days after perfecting appeal, exclusive of the day of filing the appeal bond in the district court, and the day the record reached this court. The appeal was perfected to the First Court of Civil Appeals at Galveston, but appellants forwarded the transcript and statement of facts to this court. The clerk of this court refused to file the record in this court, because it reached him too late, and so notified appellants’ counsel.
On January 24, 1916, appellees filed motion and transcript in the First Court of Civil Appeals for affirmance on certificate. On February 8, 1916, appellants filed “motion resisting appellees’ motion to affirm judgment on certificate” in the First Court of Civil Appeals. On February 10, 1916, the First Court of Civil Appeals entered its order transferring the motions and transcript to this court; and on February 28, 1916, the clerk of the First Court of Civil Appeals certified the record to this court, same reaching here February 29, 1916. The full 90 days was allowed by the trial court for preparing and filing statement of facts.
Article 1608, Vernon’s Sayles’ Civil Statutes, provides that transcripts shall be filed with the clerk of appellate courts within 90 days from perfection of appeal, and that the appellate court may permit later filing for good cause shown. Article 2084, Vernon’s Sayles’ Civil Statutes, provides that appeal is perfected when the appeal bond is filed and approved. Article 1610, Vernon’s Sayles’ Civil Statutes, provides as follows:
“In case the appellant or plaintiff in error shall fail to file transcript of the record, as directed in this chapter, then it shall be lawful for the appellee or defendant in error to file with the clerk of said court a certificate of the clerk of the district or county court in which * * * such appeai or writ of error may have been taken, attested by the seal of his court, stating the time when such appeal was perfected o.r such citation was served; whereupon it shall be the duty of the Courts of Civil Appeals to affirm the judgment of the court below, unless good cause can be shown why such transcript was not filed by the appellant or plaintiff in error. If a copy of the bond accompanies such certificate of the clerk of the district or county court, the judgment shall, in like manner, be affirmed against the sureties on such bond.”
Our opinion is that diligence is lacking on the part of appellants, that no reasonable cause is shown why the record was not filed in the trial court as required by law, and the same is true as to filing in this court, even though the appeal had been perfected to this court. The transcript accompanying the motion of appellees to affirm on certificate shows all of the statutory requirements as to jurisdiction of the trial court, etc., and we are of the opinion that the motion to affirm the judgment of the trial court on certificate is well taken, and should be granted.
Affirmed.
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