Court Opinion

ID: 9677092
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:43:18.575277+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:18:50.534444
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ELLIS, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion. In reviewing whether the trial court’s judgment notwithstanding the verdict was proper, we must view the evidence admitted at trial in favor of appellants and determine that there is no evidence upon which the jury could have found for appellants. Exxon Corp. v. Quinn, 726 S.W.2d 17, 19 (Tex.1987). I would affirm the trial court’s judgment because there is no evidence actually connecting Local 4-23 and the seven individual appellees to the acts complained of by the Hinotes. While proof of a conspiracy, in particular, may be made by circumstantial evidence, vital facts may not be proved by unreasonable inferences from other facts and circumstances nor may a vital fact be established by piling inference upon inference. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. v. Nortex Oil and Gas Corp., 435 S.W.2d 854, 858 (Tex.1968).