Legal Opinion

Rhonda Patrice Goodman-Delaney v. Marilynn Grantham

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided December 17, 2015No. 14-15-00144-CVPublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Martha Hill Jamison, Justice

In this forcible detainer case, appellant Rhonda Patrice Goodman-Delaney challenges the legal sufficiency of the evidence in support of the county court at law’s judgment against her for rent and attorney’s fees on the basis that she did not have a landlord-tenant relationship with appellee, Marilynn Grantham.- • We ■ conclude that the'justice court and county court at law did not have jurisdiction over the cause- due to the parties’ lack of a landlord-tenant relationship, vacate the judgment as void, and-dismiss Grantham’s forcible detainer action for want…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Rusk State Hospital v. BlackTexas Supreme Court · 2012
  2. Rice v. Pinney, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2001
  3. Aguilar v. Weber, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2002
  4. Ruby Yarbrough and Wilburn E. Yarbrough v. Household Finance Corporation IIICourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
  5. Doggett v. NitschkeTexas Supreme Court · 1973

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Aracely Enterprises, LLC v. Sesatty Enterprises, LLC, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2025
  2. Berta Garza v. the Estate of Ernestina Olivarez, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2018
  3. Dwain A. Boehl v. Lisa Richardson, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2019
  4. Edmund B. Heimlich v. David Cook, Dependent Administrator of the Estate of Ernest L. Heimlich, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2023
  5. James Eric Melton and Kimberly Ann Melton v. Ed Smith, Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)2018

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