KLEVENHAGEN v. INTERN. FID. INS. CO.

No. 01-92-00684-CV.

861 S.W.2d 13 (1993)

Johnny KLEVENHAGEN, Sheriff of Harris County, Texas, and Harris County, Texas, Appellants v. INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, Allegheny Mutual Insurance Company, National American Insurance, American Bonding Company, Connie T. Murray, Steve Cruz, Sunny S. Annuzzi, Carol B. Burns, E. DeLachica, Jim Coghlan, Richard T. Mackintosh, Edd Blackwood, Carl Guillory, Clement Romeo, John Burns, Gramercy Insurance Company d/b/a Allied Bonding Agency, and Abba Indemnity Company d/b/a Santana Bonding, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

August 5, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Sanders, Houston, for appellants.

Roger Moore, Carl R. Pruett, Houston, for appellees.

Before OLIVER-PARROTT, C.J., and MIRABAL and COHEN, JJ.


OPINION

COHEN, Justice.

We must decide whether TEX.REV.CIV.STAT. ANN. art. 2372p-3, § 6(f)(3) (Vernon Supp. 1993), requires corporate sureties to post letters of credit securing 100 percent of the face value of bail bonds. We hold it does not.

The facts are undisputed. On January 27, 1992, the sheriff of Harris County, Johnny Klevenhagen, notified all corporate sureties writing bail bonds in Harris County that, pursuant to article 2372p-3, section...

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