Court Opinion

ID: 9668917
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:31:36.68422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:50.011239
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
We hold the compulsory counterclaim of Bohart and the Bank’s claim involve identical facts, issues, and subject matter, and are so interwoven a severance would occasion unnecessary litigation and a multiplicity of suits. As stated in 3 McDonald, Texas Civil Practice § 10.25 (1970):
“. . . The trial court should not sever the plaintiff’s claim from the defendant’s compulsory counterclaim, or a cross-claim between defendants, arising out of and turning upon the same facts . .”
The granting of the severance was an abuse of discretion. Bates v. First National Bank of Waco, 502 S.W.2d 181 (Tex.Civ.App.-Waco 1973, no writ).
We can find nothing in the record to cause us to change the judgment heretofore entered. The motion for rehearing is overruled.