Vehle v. Vehle
Vehle v. Vehle
Opinion of the Court
This is a cost bond appeal from a judgment of divorce between the parties, a partition of the community property, and the awarding of custody of their two minor children, Otto M. Vehle, Jr. and Vicki Marie Vehle, to appellee. After" the record was filed here,' an order was entered by the District Court on a new application changing the custody of the children, during the pendency of this appeal, from appellee to appellant. Before said temporary order was enforced, appel-lee applied to this Court for a stay of such; order, asserting that the trial court had' no jurisdiction to enter such order pending the appeal, and further,' that unless such order was stayed, appellee would be ' materially prejudiced and affected during' the pendency of this appeal. We ordered the parties to maintain the status quo' pending a hearing thereon; and the hearing having been held, the matter is now before us for the 'disposition of the above motion.
It appears from the record that no statement of facts in connection with the hearing of divorce, or on the hearing on the order changing the custody temporarily during the pendency of this appeal, has been filed in this Court.
The motion upon which the temporary custody was changed alleged in substance
It is undisputed that on the hearing in the District Court evidence was heard by the court.
The court’s order on the motion for change of custody pending this appeal, is, omitting formal parts, as follows:
“On the 26th day of September, 1952, came on to be heard defendant and cross plaintiff’s motion for temporary custody of the two minor children of the above named parties, to wit, Otto M. Vehle, Jr., and Vicki Marie Vehle; and came the parties in person and by their attorneys of record, both sides announced ready for trial; no jury being demanded, the court having heard the pleadings, the evidence and the argument of counsel, did on the 29th day of September, 1952, find that the best interests of said minor children above named will be served by placing them in the care and custody of their natural mother, Martha H. Vehle, pending the final disposition of this cause. It Is Therefore Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed by the court that the custody of Otto M. Vehle, Jr., and Vicki Marie Vehle be, and it is hereby, awarded to their mother, Martha H. Vehle, pending a final disposition of this cause on appeal; and It Is Further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed by the court that the said plaintiff, Otto M. Vehle, Sr., is hereby ordered and directed to deliver said children to their natural mother instanter. To all of which action of the court plaintiff in open court excepted and gave notice of appeal to the Fifth Supreme Judicial District.”
Under such record we must presume that the order of September 26, 1952 was based on evidence sustaining the allegations of
The order is neither void nor voidable since the trial court, pending the appeal here, has authority to enter such orders as are made necessary by the changing circumstances of the parties pending the appeal. Jennings v. Berry, District Judge, Tex.Civ.App., 153 S.W.2d 725; Goldsmith v. Salkey, 131 Tex. 139, 112 S.W.2d 165, 116 A.L.R. 1293.
For the reasons above set out, our former order is set aside and the relief prayed for in the motion to stay is denied.
It Is So Ordered.
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