Court Opinion

ID: 9833226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:32:42.163838+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.701117
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
On initial consideration thereof, we were disposed to follow appellant’s suggestion (first made in motion for rehearing) that the cause be reversed and remanded to the trial court, petitioner’s original pleading to serve as a basis for relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act. Further *624study convinces us, however, that no useful purpose would be served by such remand, as appellant’s repleader under the Act would comprehend in effect a new and independent suit, embracing other and different parties.
The present record, we conclude, is lacking in parties requisite to a right to declaratory relief. Town of Santa Rosa v. Johnson, Tex.Civ.App., 184 S.W.2d 340; Anderson, Declaratory Judgments, § 27, p. 87. And our opinion of affirmance having demonstrated that the judgment dismissing appellant’s cause of action against Judge Templeton for want of jurisdiction was not erroneous, same cannot consistently be reversed and remanded solely for the purpose of obtaining a declaration “of rights, status or legal relations” as against further parties whose interest would be affected thereby. Art. 2524 — 1, § 11, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St, Declaratory Judgments.
Accordingly, the order of Friday, May 10, remanding this cause is set aside and motion of appellant for rehearing overruled.