Court Opinion

ID: 9680134
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:21:15.145984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:25.800629
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TOM GRAY, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I respect the majority’s decision to not abandon its prior decision. See Lewis v. Funderburk, 191 S.W.3d 756 (Tex.App.Waco 2006, pet. filed). But I continue to believe that prior decision was incorrectly decided. Id. at 761 (Gray, C.J., dissenting). And while the majority cites one court that agrees with them and two courts that disagree, slip opinion at p. 2, the Appellants have identified a number of other courts that they contend implicitly *302disagree with the majority. There is no question, however, that the courts of appeals’ decisions are in direct conflict, thus invoking the Supreme Court’s conflict jurisdiction. Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.001(a)(2) (Vernon 2004).
Because the precedential value of our prior decision is not yet established, I dissent from the judgment of the Court for the same reasons that I dissented in Lewis v. Funderburk. Lewis v. Funderburk, 191 S.W.3d 756, 761-66 (Tex.App.-Waco 2006, pet. filed) (Gray, C.J., dissenting)