Supreme Court of Texas

Where civil procedure rules provided the plaintiff opportunity to obtain leave to file a late response to a summary-judgment motion, the court erred in applying an equitable standard to plaintiff's motion for new trial, and where plaintiff did not show good cause, a motion for leave to file a late summary-judgment response is denied.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2001
• Decided 07/03/2002
• Published 07/03/2002

Judges

• Justice O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice HANKINSON and Justice JEFFERSON joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sue S. Walker, Fort Worth, Christopher N. Forbis, Sewell and Forbis, Decatur, Michael A. Miller, Miller & McCarthy, P.C., Dallas, Thomas M. Michel, David L. Evans, Bourland Kirkman Seidler Evans Jay & Michel, LLP, Fort Worth, April Love Foscue, Dallas, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph W. Spence, Shannon Gracey Ratliff & Miller, Robert E. Aldrich, Jr., John F. Murphy, Gardner Aldrich & Murphy, LLP, Fort Worth, for Respondent.