Rhonda Patrice Goodman-Delaney v. Marilynn Grantham
Court of Appeals of Texas
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…
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