SAMMONS ENTERPRISES, INC. v. MANLEY

No. 19310.

554 S.W.2d 205 (1977)

SAMMONS ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellant, v. Darrell F. MANLEY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Joplin, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, for appellant.

Robert L. Blumenthal, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman, Johnson & Blumenthal, Joe B. Tolle, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, for appellees.


GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

The question on this appeal is whether a statutory change in the rate of interest on judgments applies to a judgment recovered before the effective date of the change so as to make the judgment bear interest at the new rate from the date of the change. We hold that the judgment continues to bear interest at the old rate.

When the present judgment was signed on April 28, 1975, the statute governing the interest rate on judgments was...

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