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263 S.W.2d 181

Theriot v. Smith

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 25, 1953

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1953-11-25

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[ujnder this statute it has been repeatedly held that an amendment of pleading setting up additional grounds for liability, but upon the same debt and between the same parties, does not make a different transaction so as to prevent tolling of limitations. An excellent discussion of this question is made by Justice Hale in O’Quinn v. Scott, (Tex.Civ.App. [1952]) [sic], 251 S.W.2d 168 , writ of error ref’d.”

quoted by 2 later decisions, including Pineda v. PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., Blalack v. Johnson

Relies on City of Beaumont v. Moore · First State Bank & Trust Co. v. Ramirez · Moore v. City of Beaumont

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1953-11-25

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2007

3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1On Motion for Rehearing

¶2 Appellee contends that since es-toppel was first raised by Appellant in his 2nd Amended Petition, at which time more than two years had elapsed since the time of the purported promise, that the claim was barred by the two year Statute of Limitations, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 5526. This contention is overruled in view of *184Article 5539b, Tex.Civ.Stats. Under this statute it has 'been repeatedly held that an amendment of pleading setting up additional 'grounds for liability, but upon the same debt and between the same parties, does not make a different transaction so as to prevent tolling of limitations. An excellent discussion of this question is made .by Justice Hale in O’Quinn v. Scott, Tex.Civ.App., 251 S.W.2d 168, writ of error refused. See also : Thompson v. Van Howeling, Tex.Civ.App., 49 S.W.2d 961; First State Bank & Trust Co., of Rio Grande City v. Ramirez, 133 Tex. 178, 126 S.W.2d 16; Moore v. City of Beaumont, Tex.Civ.App., 195 S.W.2d 968; and 146 Tex. 46, 202 S.W.2d 448.

¶3Appellee’s 'motion for ’ rehearing is accordingly , overruled. ‘

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