Court Opinion

ID: 9678674
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:28:01.090667+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:26:49.876339
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Appellee, Northwest Airport Management, L.P., d/b/a David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, and Appellant, Rolling Lands Investments, L.C., each file a motion for rehearing herein. We have reviewed those motions, along with our original opinion and the law, and conclude we were correct in our original opinion and disposition of this case as to all substantive matters we addressed. Accordingly, we overrule points one through three of Northwest’s motion for rehearing. We issue this opinion on rehearing to address the clarifications requested by the parties in their respective motions for rehearing, Rolling Lands’ sole point and Northwest’s points four and five.
Rolling Lands points out that its motion for summary judgment in the trial court did not exhaust all causes of action below, but left for later determination its claim for damages for breach of contract. When, as happened in this case, both parties file motions for summary judgment and one is granted and the other *203denied by the trial court, this Court reviews both motions, determines all questions presented, and renders the judgment the trial court should have rendered. FM Props. Operating Co. v. City of Austin, 22 S.W.3d 868, 872 (Tex.2000).8 That is what we did. Our disposition necessarily left open for future disposition by the trial court any causes of action or issues not covered by the competing motions for summary judgment, including Rolling Lands’ breach of contract cause of action in its entirety.
Northwest, in point four of its motion for rehearing, asks that we clarify our judgment to make clear deed restriction J (fueling rights) is enforceable. That was stated in our opinion, and we now clarify our judgment accordingly.
Northwest, in the fifth and final point of its Motion for Rehearing, asks that we clarify our opinion and judgment to make clear that the 1993 License Agreement is valid and binding on the parties. The 1993 lawsuit, cause number 93-28412 in the 334th Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas, was settled in 1993 by a “Release and Settlement Agreement,” which called for, and pursuant to which was executed, a separate 1993 agreement styled “David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport Access and Maintenance Agreement a/k/a License Agreement” (1993 License Agreement). Implicit in our opinion was our conclusion that the 1993 License Agreement continued to be valid and binding on the parties to this litigation, without any further license agreement. We now clarify our judgment accordingly.

. When the parly against which summary judgment is improperly rendered by the trial court has there sought only a partial summary judgment, ordinarily it is improper for the appellate court which reverses that summary judgment to also render judgment for the appellant. CU Lloyd’s of Tex. v. Feldman, 977 S.W.2d 568, 569 (Tex.1998). But, when that party’s requested partial summary judgment is for a declaratory judgment, a rendition is proper where it should have been the result in the trial court. Bowman v. Lumberton Indep. Sch. Dist., 801 S.W.2d 883, 889 (Tex.1990); see Jones v. Strauss, 745 S.W.2d 898, 900 (Tex. 1988). The rendition of judgment for Rolling Lands is a declaratory judgment.