Court Opinion

ID: 9776666
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:41:53.903893+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:09:15.592206
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
BARROW, Justice.
The bank argues that it is entitled to have the cause remanded to the court of appeals for consideration of a factual insufficiency point of error. The court of appeals did not rule on a contention that there was factually insufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding that the bank had actual knowledge of the unauthorized change in the signature card. The bank’s point of error in the court of appeals, however, asserted that 47 separate findings of fact, including the one at issue here,
are contrary to the undisputed testimony in the cause, and there is no evidence to support them, or, in the alternative, are based upon insufficient evidence, and are contrary to the great and overwhelming preponderance of the evidence in this case.
Such a point of error does not “sufficiently direct the court’s attention to the nature of the complaint made regarding each such ... finding.” Tex.R.Civ.P. 418(d). Nor are “separate record references” made concerning each finding. Id. Moreover, the factual sufficiency point, a distinct legal theory from a no evidence attack, was not separately briefed. The only references to the record state that the “undisputed evidence shows” or “it must be clear” or the like. This type of briefing refers to legal, not factual, insufficiency. Holley v. Watts, 629 S.W.2d 694 (Tex.1982). Points of error not separately briefed are waived. Burgess v. Sylvester, 143 Tex. 25, 182 S.W.2d 358 (1944). We hold that this point of error does not entitle the bank to a remand. See Great American Insurance Co. v. Langdeau, 379 S.W.2d 62, 74 (Tex.1964).
The motions for rehearing are overruled.
BARROW, J., dissents.