P.R.I.D.E. v. Texas Workers' Cmpensation Commission

I agree the district court was without “jurisdiction,” albeit on a different ground.

QUESTIONS OF JURISDICTION

Jurisdiction is a comprehensive word having several distinctions. One of the most basic is a distinction between subject-matter jurisdiction — the power to hear and determine a general class of cases to which a particular case belongs — and a power to hear and determine a disputed issue within the particular case itself. See Honea v. Gra*178ham, 66 S.W.2d 802, 804 (Tex.Civ.App.1934); City of El Paso v. Madero Development, 803 S.W.2d 396, 399 (Tex.App.—El Paso 1991, writ denied); Bullock v.…