Court Opinion

ID: 9775668
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:06:32.100256+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:30.098314
License: Public Domain

GREENHILL, Justice
(concurring).
While the court did not reach the question of the pleading, I agree with the result reached because there were no pleadings that the contract was illegal. Rule 94 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure specifically requires that illegality be affirmatively plead.
There may be cases in which the illegality is so flagrant as to warrant the court’s noticing it even in the absence of pleadings raising the question (for example, a suit to enforce a contract to murder); but I do not consider this to be such a case.
WALKER, J., joins in this concurring opinion.