# Langford v. Blackman

> Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont) · May 31, 1990 · 790 S.W.2d 127

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9655242

## Case

- **Full name:** Alice Foxworth LANGFORD and Mark Edward Langford, Sr., Individually, and as Parents of Their Deceased Child, Robert Benjamin Langford, Appellants, v. Terry Lee BLACKMAN, Julie Barnes Webb, and Claudia Webb Blackman, Appellees
- **Court:** Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
- **Decided:** May 31, 1990
- **Citations:** 790 S.W.2d 127; 1990 Tex. App. LEXIS 1574; 1990 WL 88142
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Walker
- **Judges:** Brookshire, Walker, Burgess
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed by Blackman v. Langford, 33 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 751 (1990).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9655242

## Opinion text

WALKER, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I concur with Justice Brookshire’s opinion with an “AMEN” and especially approve the last two paragraphs thereof.
I recognize that we are dealing with an absolute question of law matter and a photograph cannot and should not be probative to the answer. One might argue that to even consider the photograph begs sympathy. Sympathy has no part in my concurrence.
A jurist once proclaimed that he could not define pornography, but he recognized it when he saw it. I may not know how to perfectly define the word “person”, but I sure can recognize one when I see one.

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9655242. Public record. Not legal advice.