Court Opinion

ID: 9863079
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 03:03:33.684335+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:46:53.115941
License: Public Domain

WILSON, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the result for an additional reason. Defendant on February 5, 1965 *572filed a motion to quash citation in which it stated it was making a “limited appearance”, and alleging the person served was not its agent for service. On the same date (but one minute later) defendant filed its plea of privilege “subject to, but not waiving its limited appearance for the purpose of quashing service”.
Special appearance is not recognized in Texas, Burger v. Burger, 156 Tex. 584, 298 S.W.2d 119, 121 (1957), except as provided by Rule 120a, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; and then only for the purpose of objecting to jurisdiction on the ground the party is “not amenable to process”.
The filing of the motion to quash waived the plea of privilege Rules 84, 85, and see Rule 88, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Decisions prior to the 1950 amendment to Rule 84 are not applicable on this question because of the modification concerning due order of pleading.