Moritz v. Preiss

The trial court rendered a judgment against petitioner that did not name one of the defendants. We must decide whether the trial court’s original judgment was final. If it was, then the petitioner’s amended motion for new trial filed more than thirty days after the trial court signed the judgment was untimely. Concerned that the original judgment was not final, the court of appeals abated the appeal and remanded to the trial court to enter a final judgment that expressly disposed of all parties. 60 S.W.3d at 287. The trial court then signed a new judgment that included the originally unnamed…