Legal Opinion
Brown v. Brookshires Grocery Store
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided February 10, 1999No. 05-96-01710-CVPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOSEPH B. MORRIS, Justice.
This is an appeal by writ of error. Jeffrey and Charles Brown challenge the trial court’s order dismissing their lawsuit against appellees for want of prosecution. In two points of error, they contend the dismissal was not factually supported and that the dismissal without a hearing violated Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 165a. We agree the trial court did not comply with the rules of civil procedure. We reverse the dismissal order.
Factual BackgRound
Appellants sued appellees in 1994 on various causes of action arising out of an alleged incident occurring at a…
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