Opinion ID: 2455468
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Heading: Cross-Points in the Supreme Court

Text: One source of confusion in the lower courts may be our treatment of cross-points before this court. There has always been a crucial difference between cross-points in the courts of appeals and cross-points in this court. When a party seeks a different and more favorable judgment than the judgment rendered by the court of appeals, such point must be brought to this court by application for writ of error. Archuleta v. International Ins. Co., 667 S.W.2d 120, 123 (Tex.1984). A cross-point is insufficient to preserve the point of error. In general, to obtain a different and more favorable judgment and to invoke the jurisdiction of this court, each party in the court of appeals must file both a timely motion for rehearing and an application for writ of error. [5] , [6] Id.; Wich v. Fleming, 652 S.W.2d 353, 356 (Tex.1983); Pruitt v. Republic Bankers Life Ins. Co., 491 S.W.2d 109, 112 (Tex.1973); Oil Field Haulers Ass'n v. Railroad Comm'n, 381 S.W.2d 183, 187 (Tex.1964); Schleicher v. Runge, 90 Tex. 456, 457-58, 39 S.W. 279, 280 (1897); Tex.R.App.P. 130(b). This is in direct contrast to the rule in the courts of appeals, which allows an appellee to seek additional, affirmative relief by complaining of the trial court's error by cross-points so long as the appellant has not limited the scope of the appeal. Hernandez, 617 S.W.2d at 924. [7]