Court Opinion

ID: 9671557
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:39:02.249109+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:10.725763
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Justice Folley speaking for the Supreme Court in Jackson v. Hall, Chief Justice, supra, quoted with approval from another of their cases as follows:
“ ‘It is the general rule in civil cases that, when the Court of Civil Appeals reverses the judgments of the trial court for lack of evidence in support thereof, it will not render judgment unless it appears that the case in that respect has been fully developed. In such cases, when it does not appear that the facts have been fully developed, the judgment of the appellate court should be one of remand and not one of rendition.’ ”
If this case was fully developed from the testimony available, appellant is not prejudiced by a remand, because appellee could not make out a cause of action. If the case was not fully developed, the above quote from the Supreme Court indicates to us it should be remanded for development rather than rendered.
Therefore, the motion for rehearing is overruled.