Electro Sales and Services, Inc. and Salim Merchant v. City of Terrell Hills
Opinion
Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas April 6, 2018
No. 04-17-00077-CV
ELECTRO SALES AND SERVICES, INC. and Salim Merchant, Appellants
v.
CITY OF TERRELL HILLS, Appellee
From the 57th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas Trial Court No. 2016-CI-19821 Honorable Michael E. Mery, Judge Presiding
ORDER On March 14, 2018, this court issued its opinion and judgment. The due date for a motion for rehearing was March 29, 2018.
On April 2, 2018, Appellant Salim Merchant, acting pro se on behalf of himself and Electro Sales and Service Inc., filed a first motion for extension of time to file a motion for rehearing until May 13, 2018. See TEX. R. APP. P. 49.1, 49.8.
Appellants’ motion is GRANTED. Appellants’ motion for rehearing is due to be filed with this court by May 12, 2018.
Although “a document filed in court by a non-attorney purportedly on behalf of a corporation . . . may be effective for certain purposes,” Rabb Int’l, Inc. v. SHL Thai Food Serv., LLC, 346 S.W.3d 208, 210 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2011, no pet.), we caution Appellants that “[c]orporations appearing in court may be represented only by a licensed attorney. A corporation that attempts to thwart this rule and have a non-attorney represent the corporation does so at its peril,” id. at 211 (citation omitted); see Kunstoplast of Am., Inc. v. Formosa Plastics Corp., USA, 937 S.W.2d 455, 456 (Tex. 1996) (“Generally a corporation may be represented only by a licensed attorney . . . .”); Sherman v. Boston, 486 S.W.3d 88, 98 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2016, pet. denied) (“[A] non-attorney representative cannot appear for a [corporation] or present a case on its behalf. An attempt to do so has no legal effect.” (citation omitted)).
Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 6th day of April, 2018.
KEITH E. HOTTLE, Clerk of Court
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