Legal Opinion
S.E.A. Leasing, Inc. v. Steele
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided August 17, 2007No. 01-05-00189-CVPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION DISSENTING FROM THE DENIAL OF EN BANC RECONSIDERATION
EVELYN V. KEYES, Justice.
I respectfully dissent from denial of en banc reconsideration. The panel opinion in this case adds new and unprecedented hurdles to appellants’ preservation of legal sufficiency points of error. In so doing, it contravenes the objective of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 1, namely “to obtain a just, fair, equitable and impartial adjudication of the rights of litigants under established principles of substantive law,” to which end the rules “shall be given a liberal construction.” Tex.R. Civ. P. 1. En banc…
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