Court Opinion

ID: 9646263
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 12:54:28.204626+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:36.089424
License: Public Domain

MAUZY, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the majority’s result. Under the facts of this case, the trial court’s appointment of a special master was a clear abuse of discretion. See La Buy v. Howes Leather Co., 352 U.S. 249, 77 S.Ct. 309, 1 L.Ed.2d 290 (1957).
I object, however, to the majority’s unnecessary discourse on the historical role of special masters. This Court’s role is not to author legal treatises. Cf. Reagan v. Vaughn, 804 S.W.2d 463 (Tex.1991) (Hecht, J., dissenting on motion for rehearing). Nor is it to issue advisory opinions. Cf. Edgewood v. Kirby, 804 S.W.2d 491 (Tex. 1991) (on motion for rehearing). The people of this state elect their judges to decide the cases that come before the courts. As surely as that role is served by sound reasoning, so is it disserved by needless exercises in pedantry.