Court Opinion

ID: 9764834
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:41:28.381373+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:01.879956
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
ROBERTSON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment dissolving the temporary injunction. However, I believe that the court should not have written on the merits. In Interfirst Bank San Felipe v. Paz Construction Co., 715 S.W.2d 640 (Tex.1986), this court held that the requirements of Tex.R.Civ.P. 683 are mandatory and must be strictly followed, otherwise the temporary injunction order will be void. Interfirst at 641. Because the trial court in Interfirst did not include an order setting the cause for trial on the merits, which is patently contrary to the language of Rule 683, we reversed the court of appeals and declared the temporary injunction void. It has come to our attention on rehearing, though not briefed or argued, that the trial court here made the same mistake that was made in Interfirst, thus the same result should follow. I neither agree nor disagree with the conclusions made by the majority or dissent; rather I feel that we need have looked no further than Interfirst to decide this case. By its actions, the majority has created an irreconcilable conflict between two cases decided by this court within a single year. Such a result is of benefit to no one.