National Convenience Stores, Inc. v. Martinez

ORDER

Appellees ask this Court to increase the supersedeas bond. They assert the posted supersedeas bond is insufficient for failure to include post-judgment interest. We agree and increase the supersedeas bond to include post-judgment interest for 18 months at the rate of 10 percent.

Tex.R.App.P. 47(b) requires a super-sedeas bond to be at least in an amount of the judgment, interest and costs. A super-sedeas bond that does not include interest is “patently ineffective.” Cooper v. Bowser, 583 S.W.2d 805, 807 (Tex.Civ.App.—San Antonio 1979, no writ). The superse-deas bond filed by appellant is…