Freeport Operators, Inc. v. Home Insurance Co.

OPINION

DRAUGHN, Justice.

Appellant, Freeport Operators, Inc., complains of the trial court’s dismissal of this cause for want of prosecution. Appellant contends on appeal that such dismissal violated the provisions of Rule 165a of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and was an abuse of the court’s inherent power to dismiss. Appellee, however, urges that the case filed did not present a justiciable controversy because its maturity for litigation was dependent on the outcome of several pending federal lawsuits, and thus the instant case was properly dismissed. We find that appellant, in effect,…