Court Opinion

ID: 9773162
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:38:47.658302+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:45.716185
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Dissenting opinions by
Justices GONZALEZ and MAUZY.
Justice HIGHTOWER not sitting.
MAUZY, Justice, dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. I cannot agree with the Court’s decision to remand this cause to the trial court in the interest of justice. Amarillo Oil freely chose the legal theory, whether correct or incorrect, on which it proceeded at trial. It requested the questions submitted to the jury, it introduced evidence regarding those questions, and it received answers from the jury regarding those questions. Unfortunately for Amarillo Oil, the jury’s answers were not favorable. Plainly, on the record before it, the trial court rendered a correct judgment. Such “an errorless judgment ... cannot be reversed in the interest of justice.” Uselton v. State, 499 S.W.2d 92, 99 (Tex.1973). I would affirm the judgment of the trial court.