Wang v. Hsu

OPINION

FOWLER, Justice.

In this civil assault and battery case, we must determine whether setting aside a judgment revives an earlier identical judgment signed in the same case. We determine it does not, and dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction because the record contains no final judgment.

Briefly, the parties in this case are two families which have adjacent sidewalk stores outside a Fiesta grocery store. Jason Wang is the father of Agnes Wang and Jackson Wang. Jackson Hsu and Shzao Hsu are married. On May 26, 1990, there was an altercation between the families, which resulted in each…