Lee v. GST TRANSPORT SYSTEM, LP

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice FRANCIS.

Two competing lawsuits arising out of a fatality collision were filed in district courts in Dallas and Madison counties. Both trial courts asserted dominant jurisdiction. This interlocutory appeal comes to us on an agreed order on a controlling question of law. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014(d) (Vernon 2008). The issue presented is: “Under the ‘relation-back’ and/or the ‘first-filed’ doc-trinéis), which is the court of dominant jurisdiction?” To answer the issue, we must decide whether the relation-back doctrine, embodied in section 16.068 of the…