United States Fire Insurance Co. v. Stricklin

AKIN, Justice.

This is a motion by appellant pursuant to Tex.R.Civ.P. 21c requesting the court to permit the filing of a transcript on the sixty-third day after appellant’s motion for new trial was overruled by operation of law. We have previously granted appellant’s motion and ordered the appeal filed. In so ordering, we expressly overruled the prior opinion of this court in Sloan v. Passman, 536 S.W.2d 575 (Tex.Civ.App.—Dallas 1976, no writ) and adopted the view expressed by Chief Justice Guittard in his dissent in that case. Sloan v. Passman, 538 S.W.2d 1 (dissenting opinion). We now state…