Court Opinion

ID: 9675814
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:06:23.193604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:39.719273
License: Public Domain

GRANT, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the results only of the majority opinion. I fully concur with the concurring opinion but would also add the following reservations concerning the majority opinion.
I do not find that Tex.R.Civ.Evid. 104(a) is applicable, nor do I find that it establishes a discretionary standard for the admissibility of evidence. Rule 104 deals only with preliminary matters, to which the Rules of Evidence are not applicable. The admissibility of evidence frequently will depend upon establishing a predicate, qualifying a witness, meeting a condition, or justifying reliance on a privilege. Rule 104 addresses these questions. See H. Wen-dorf, D. Schlueter, R. Barton, Texas Rules of Evidence Manual, at 1-37 (3rd ed. 1991). The issue in the present case relates to a matter of substantive evidence.
In Gee v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 765 S.W.2d 394 (Tex.1989), the Texas Supreme Court set forth the standard for obtaining a reversal of a judgment based upon error of the trial court in admission or exclusion of evidence: there must be a showing (1) that the trial court did in fact commit error, and (2) that the error was reasonably calculated to cause and probably did cause rendition of an improper judgment, citing Bridges v. City of Richardson, 163 Tex. 292, 354 S.W.2d 366, 368 (1962), and Tex.R.App.P. 81(b).