In Re Smith

Judgment debtors Ron Smith and Main Place Custom Homes, Inc. filed motions seeking review of the trial court’s order setting aside their cash deposits in lieu of supersedeas bond to suspend enforcement of the trial court’s judgment and sustaining the judgment creditors’ challenge to their net worth affidavits. We treat the motions as petitions for writ of mandamus and conditionally grant in part and deny in part the relief sought.

Texas law provides that when a judgment is for money, the amount of security required to suspend enforcement of the judgment pending appeal may not exceed the lesser…