Quarles v. Champion International Corp.

OPINION

DIES, Chief Justice.

In cause number 11,053 in Polk County, Texas, July 1987, Champion International Corporation (“Champion”) sought a determination that a 1978 judgment in cause number 8729 entered by the same court did not determine any interest of James H. Quarles in certain real estate as against Champion. In cause number 8729, on October 7, 1977, Quarles had instituted a suit for declaratory relief that he, Quarles, had title to various real properties recited in a petition in cause number 8571 (in the same court), styled Howell, et al. v. Quarles.1 In June of 1978, the court gave…