Supreme Court of Texas

A motion for leave to file a late summary-judgment response should be granted when the nonmovant establishes good cause by showing that the failure to timely respond 1) was the result of accident or mistake, and 2) that allowing late response will occasion no undue delay or otherwise injure the party seeking summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/28/2001
• Decided 12/31/2002
• Published 12/31/2002

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.