Court Opinion

ID: 9442287
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 18:42:20.25544+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:02.657996
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WALLER, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring).
If the opinion in our case of Hunteman v. New Orleans Public Service Co., Inc., et al., 5 Cir., 119 F.2d 465, is correct — and its correctness seems to be supported by much authority — then the orders quashing the process were interlocutory and the appeal is properly dismissed. But on account of the apparent finality with which some of the defendants were dismissed out of the case because of the showing that they had never transacted business in the State of Texas, it seems to me to be incorrect to say that the dismissal orders in this respect were interlocutory.
Since the facts upon which the motions were predicated were neither disputed nor the evidence supporting same disproven, it would seem that such orders were without error and ought more properly to be affirmed. Without doubt, the orders quashing the process are interlocutory, but I deem the orders dismissing the defendants because of non-suability in Texas to have the quality of final judgments.