Murphee Property Holdings, Ltd. v. Sunbelt Savings Ass'n of Texas

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal of a declaratory judgment following a bench trial on stipulated facts. Appellee, Sunbelt Savings Association of Texas (Sunbelt), brought suit against appellant, Murphee Property Holdings, Ltd. (Murphee), seeking a declaratory judgment on two issues:(1) whether Sunbelt should have been made a party defendant in the real property tax foreclosure suit styled Mission Bend Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Highway 6 Venture, a Texas Limited Partnership (“the tax suit”); and(2) whether, absent Sunbelt’s joinder, the tax suit judgment rendered should be…