Estate of Savana

OPINION

J. Brett Busby, Justice

This case concerns the scope of a trial court’s power to dismiss causes of action under Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 91a. Appellant Dorothy Savana filed a plea in intervention and third-party petition in the independent administration of the estate of her late husband, Robert James Savana (“the deceased”), asserting causes of action relating to the ownership of a house within the deceased’s estate. Those causes of action included a- request for partition and claims of adverse possession and fraud.

Appellee Mary Elizabeth Marshall, independent executor of the…