Court Opinion

ID: 9387193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-04-16 07:10:16.447729+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:12.085330
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Affirmed in Part, Reversed and Remanded in Part, and Majority Opinion and
Concurring and Dissenting Opinion filed April 11, 2023.

                                      In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                              NO. 14-21-00324-CV

                 SUZANNE MARIE THORNHILL, Appellant
                                        V.
                  WILLIAM SCOTT THORNHILL, Appellee

                    On Appeal from the County Court No. 1
                           Galveston County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 20-FD-0257

                 CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION

      I concur in part with this court’s judgment and join in the opinion except for
the final sentence of the opinion—“We affirm the remainder of the decree.” That
suggests that we sua sponte reviewed the remainder of the decree for reversible
error, which we did not because appellant did not preserve complaints for appellate
review on the remainder and did not bring issues or points of error on appeal on the
remainder. I would omit that sentence because we did no such review as the parties
did not complain on appeal about the remainder. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.1(b) (error
affecting only part of case). I therefore dissent in part to the following sentence in
this court’s judgment: “We find no error in the remainder of the final decree and
order it AFFIRMED.”1

                                            /s/       Charles A. Spain
                                                      Justice

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Bourliot and Spain
(Bourliot, J., majority).

       1
          Notwithstanding this court’s sua sponte affirmance on issues or points of error no one
argued on appeal, this court’s judgment correctly recognizes appellant as the prevailing party in
awarding to appellant costs incurred by appellant. Tex. R. App. P. 43.4 (judgment for costs in
civil cases).

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