Starnes v. Holloway

BAKER, Justice.

This summary judgment case concerns another chapter in the continuing saga of the multiple litigation between the Browning interests and Holloway. The issue is whether the trial court erred in holding that a 1982 judgment rendered by Judge Dee Brown Walker of the 162nd District Court was void as a matter of law because that judge never legally acquired subject matter jurisdiction of the initial suit. We hold that the trial court did err in so holding, reverse the trial court’s judgment, and remand this cause for further proceedings.

The litigation between the parties began in…