McRoberts v. Ryals

OPINION

GAMMAGE, Justice.

This appeal of a summary judgment in a bill of review case presents again the problem of the effect of severance orders on the filing deadlines necessary to preserve appeals. The trial court held McRoberts’ first counsel was negligent as a matter of law when he believed that a judgment combined with a severance order was interlocutory after the court of appeals clerk advised him that the order was “clearly interlocutory with respect to the parent cause [and that] nothing in the record reflects] that any order at all has been entered in the severed cause.” The court of…