Billy H. Champion v. David R. Robinson

The bench trial of this case appears to have been no easy task for the trial court. The fact that a number of joint owners of the property sought to be partitioned appeared pro se and participated in the trial (most of whom seemed to have had very little familiarity with procedures followed in court or with the Texas Rules of Evidence) give the feeling that the trial court did a yeoman’s job in trying to prevent the trial from resembling the activities often observed in a three-ring circus.

At the conclusion of the trial, a judgment was entered that purported to determine the interests of the…