Legal Opinion

Burges v. Mosley

Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)

Decided January 20, 2010No. 12-08-00405-CVPublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

JAMES T. WORTHEN, Chief Justice.

This appeal arises from a dispute over the enforceability of an alleged agreement made by Shirley Mosley to benefit her deceased husband’s three children by a previous marriage. The trial court determined the alleged agreement was not a contract due to both a lack of consideration and failure of consideration. In two issues, the three children, Roger Wayne Burges, Deborah K. Burges Cook, and Lonnie Ray Burges (hereinafter the Burg-es children) appeal the trial court’s grant of Shirley’s motions for summary judgment and its denial of their motion for…

2Cases cited19 opinions

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