Texas Department of Public Safety v. Preble

BELL, Chief Justice.

Appellee filed suit under Article 2524-1, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ.St., seeking a declaratory judgment that all suspensions of his operator’s license to operate a motor vehicle that were asserted by appellant for offenses committed after his license had expired by its own terms on March 21, 1963, were of no effect.

The trial court concluded that there was no authority to suspend a license for offenses committed after the date on which appellee’s license expired. However, it held that for offenses committed during the life of the license, the license could be suspended for a…