Court Opinion

ID: 9775912
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:12:38.156021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:03:30.199874
License: Public Domain

BLEIL, Justice,
concurring.
As noted by the majority, the trial court, in deciding to grant the motions for summary judgment, relied on an opinion in Celtic Life Insurance Company v. Coats, which has now been withdrawn. I concur in the court’s judgment, but write separately to make it clear that, upon remand, nothing will preclude reconsideration of the motions for summary judgment under current law.
I further decline to join that part of the court’s opinion dealing with appellate review of summary judgments. I believe, as stated by Chief Justice Phillips, that an appellate court may afñrm a summary judgment on any properly raised and preserved ground, even though not recited in the order granting summary judgment. See State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S., 858 S.W.2d 374, 382 (Tex.1993) (Phillips, C.J., concurring).