Container Port Services, Inc. v. Gage

OPINION ON MOTION

OSBORN, Chief Justice.

We grant the Appellant’s motion for rehearing, withdraw our prior opinion on motion in this case, and the following is our opinion on motion.

The Appellants have filed a motion to extend the time for filing the transcript and statement of facts in this case. The Appellants’ motion for new trial was overruled as a matter of law on August 5,1986. The cost bond for appeal was timely filed on August 20, 1986. Rule 377(a), Tex.R. Civ.P., now Rule 53(a), Tex.R.App.P., required the appellant to make a written request of the official reporter designating the…