Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-24 07:18:44.310145+00
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Affirmed in Part and Reversed and Rendered in Part and Majority Opinion
and Concurring and Dissenting Opinion filed March 12, 2024.

                                      In The

                     Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                NO. 14-22-00633-CV

                    MINTVEST CAPITAL, LTD., Appellant
                                        V.
       COINMINT, LLC AND COINMINT LIVING TRUST, Appellee

                    On Appeal from the 133rd District Court
                             Harris County, Texas
                       Trial Court Cause No. 2021-50413

                CONCURRING AND DISSSENTING OPINION

      The majority identifies the issues on appeal as three points of error,
functionally sustaining all three. I concur in this court’s judgment on that. The
majority then affirms the remainder of the trial court’s judgment, which was never
challenged on appeal. Absent fundamental error in the trial-court’s judgment, this
court errs by sua sponte reviewing unchallenged portions of the trial-court’s
judgment. I dissent to that error.
      As Chief Justice Calvert famously wrote, “A correct draft of a judgment to
be included in an opinion which has been written with care should be the final
challenge to the writing judge.” Robert W. Calvert, Appellate Court Judgments or
Strange Things Happen on the Way to Judgment, 6 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 915, 925
(1975).

                                    /s/       Charles A. Spain
                                              Justice

Panel consists of Justices Jewell, Spain, and Wilson (Spain, J., concurring and
dissenting).

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