Court Opinion

ID: 4451757
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-10-31 02:14:15.971309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:01:45.853836
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NUMBER 13-18-00048-CV

                     COURT OF APPEALS

             THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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FIRST UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH,                                                   Appellant,

                                v.

CHURCH MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, BLAKE MEARS,
ZACHARY PIERCE AND LEADING
EDGE CLAIMS SERVICE,                               Appellees.
____________________________________________________________

             On appeal from the 414th District Court
                  of McLennan County, Texas.
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                  ORDER OF ABATEMENT
 Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Hinojosa and Tijerina
                        Order Per Curiam
       Appellant First United Methodist Church filed this appeal on December 29, 2017

complaining that the trial court improperly determined that its causes of action against

appellee Church Mutual Insurance Company were not viable because appellee paid an

appraisal award to appellant. The parties timely submitted their briefs in this matter.

On June 28, 2019, appellant notified the Court that on that day, the Texas Supreme Court

handed down its opinions in Barbara Technologies Corp. v. State Farm Lloyds, No. 17-

0640, 2019 WL 2710089, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. June 28, 2019) and Ortiz v. State Farm

Lloyds, No. 17-1048, 2019 WL 2710032, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. June 28, 2019). Texas

Rule of Appellate Procedure 38.7 provides that “[a] brief may be amended or

supplemented whenever justice requires, on whatever reasonable terms the court may

prescribe.” Tex. R. App. P. 38.7. Given the dimension of the issues raised in this case,

the Court has determined that additional briefing is necessary. Accordingly, the Court

hereby requests supplemental briefing from the parties regarding the effect of Barbara

Technologies Corp. v. State Farm Lloyds, and Ortiz v. State Farm Lloyds, have on this

case. Appellant’s supplemental brief shall be filed within twenty-one days from the date

of this order, and appellee’s supplemental brief, if any, shall be filed within fourteen days

thereafter. This appeal is abated and removed from the Court’s active docket until

receipt of the requested briefing.

       IT IS SO ORDERED.

                                                         PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
28th day of October, 2019.