Weems v. Frost National Bank of San Antonio

POPE, Justice.

Appellants are insistent that we write further with reference to this suit. We are admonished to heed Rule 451, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, which enjoins upon Courts of Civil Appeals the duty to “decide all issues presented to them by proper assignments of error by either party, whether such issues be of fact or of law, and announce in writing their conclusions.” Such insistence presents the paradox between abstraction and realities in opinion 'writing. In the abstract, the clamor is for short opinions; but in the real, the specific lawyer wants his specific cáse to be…