Case law

Stovall v. Shivers

129 Tex. 256 · Texas Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1937

This is evident from the fact that the dominant purpose of the statute is qualified to the extent that the court by clear implication is given the right to expend the road and bridge fund in a proportion other than in the … The petition also alleges facts which clearly raised an issue of discrimination against Precinct No. 1 in the expenditure of the road and bridge funds.

Dow Chemical Co. v. Francis

44 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 664 · Texas Supreme Court · Apr 26, 2001

Further, “[n]ot establishing bias or partiality ... are expressions of impatience, dissatisfaction, annoyance, and even anger.... … A judge’s ordinary efforts at courtroom administration — even a stern and short-tempered judge’s ordinary efforts at courtroom administration — remain immune.” Liteky, 510 U.S. at 555-56 , 114 S.Ct. 1147 .

In the Interest of J.W.T.

37 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 625 · Texas Supreme Court · Mar 30, 1994

Rather, our adoption laws clearly indicate that parenthood is a legal status that may develop with or without a biological connection. … I, § 13, does not mention liberty, privileges, or immunities. .

Blinn v. McDonald

92 Tex. 604 · Texas Supreme Court · Apr 29, 1899

If the creditor has only the right under the law to subject the property the heir, devisee, or legatee received from his debtor Epperson to the payment of his claim, the petition is clearly defective in not setting forth … by suit, or that have been rejected by the executor or administrator, or not approved by the chief justice, and may yet be established.

Cheryl Butler v. Jennifer M. Collins; Steven C. Currall; Roy P. Anderson; Julie P. Forrester; Harold Stanley; Paul Ward; And Southern Methodist University

Texas Supreme Court · May 23, 2025

Chapter 21 subjects only employers to statutory liability for covered discriminatory and retaliatory conduct and does not purport, either expressly or by implication, to immunize individuals from liability for their own tortious … create[] a liability unknown to the common law, or deprive[] a person of a common law right, the statute will be strictly construed in the sense that it will not be extended beyond its plain meaning or applied to cases not clearly

Peak v. Swindle

68 Tex. 242 · Texas Supreme Court · May 10, 1887

The preamble pealares that, “We, the people of Texas, * * * * do hereby ordain and establish this Constitution.” When did the people “ ordain and establish this Constitution?" … of the marriage of the appellee and the twenty-eighth of January, 1861, or even the second day of March of that year, to the time which elapsed between the thirtieth of March, 1870, and the institution of this action, it clearly

Texas Department of Transportation and City of Edinburg v. A.P.I. Pipe and Supply, L.L.C. and Paisano Service Company, Inc.

56 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 449 · Texas Supreme Court · Apr 5, 2013

The pleadings and evidence establish that API holds no interest in the land and thus “cannot establish a viable takings claim,” 40 meaning the trial court lacked jurisdiction. 41 We reverse the court of appeals’ judgment … This purported benefit is “simply too attenuated to establish grounds for equitable relief.” Super Wash, 198 S.W.3d at 775 .

In Re McAllen Medical Center, Inc., D/B/A McAllen Medical Center and Universal Health Services, Inc.

Texas Supreme Court · May 16, 2008

On this record, the plaintiffs have not established Dr. Brown’s qualifications. … Brown is qualified to address this standard.

Grant v. Chambers

34 Tex. 573 · Texas Supreme Court · Jul 1, 1871

in subordination. “ General Orders -No. 74, dated Headquarters Fifth Military District, April 6, 1870, section four, reads thus, All civil officers will continue in the discharge of their present duties until relieved by qualified … establishment of the provisional court in Louisiana.

House v. Kendall

55 Tex. 40 · Texas Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1881

If the contents of the will are essential to establish, or tend to do so, any issuable fact, it should have been admitted in evidence. … The record shows clearly that it was under an erroneous view of the law held by the court as to the effect of the evidence, and not in respect to its authenticity or weight, that induced the conclusion arrived at in rendering

Hubby v. Harris

68 Tex. 91 · Texas Supreme Court · Feb 15, 1887

If the face of the papers themselves show clearly a mortgage no parol evidence *95 -will be admitted to vary their terms. … The words, “when Hubby shall pay me the sum of six hundred dollars,” are not qualified by any reference to any existing debt, or to any transaction in which that sum had been a factor.

Chisholm v. Adams

71 Tex. 678 · Texas Supreme Court · Nov 9, 1888

The petition alleged substantially that the boundary *680 line between Rockwall and Kaufman counties was clearly defined, marked and established according to law, at the time Rockwall county was created, and could be easily … Adams is the duly qualified and acting assessor of Kaufman county, and is attempting to assess and list for taxes the property of petitioners so situated in Rock-wall county, and is threatening to assess and list the same

Eastham v. Roundtree

56 Tex. 110 · Texas Supreme Court · Jan 17, 1882

The charge was as full as the decisions upon this subject require; in fact, the learned judge who tried the cause seems to have complied fully and clearly with the rule established by law upon this subject. … for the property in controversy at the time the same was purchased, intending the same as an advancement to her, that then she was entitled.to recover. " To this charge the appellant excepted, because the court did not qualify

Schroeder v. Brandon

141 Tex. 319 · Texas Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1943

. * * *324 The court in overruling and qualifying the bill of exceptions stated that the witnesses “had disobeyed the instruction of the court; that while plaintiffs and defendants had rested and closed their evidence he … He is charged by conscience and law with the fundamental duty of seeing that truth is established and justice done.

Pioneer Building & Loan Ass'n v. Gray

132 Tex. 509 · Texas Supreme Court · Mar 1, 1939

Nettie Collins, his surviving widow, duly qualified as independent executrix of his estate, and that she later conveyed the mortgaged property to appellee Gray. … It was clearly enacted for the benefit of the plaintiff and constitutes an additional exception to the right of a defendant to be sued in the county of his domicile.

in Re Yrc Inc. D/B/A Yrc Freight

Texas Supreme Court · Jun 17, 2022

We conclude that the trial court clearly abused its discretion on each ground. First, YRC’s motion was timely. … Third, the trial court clearly abused its discretion in concluding that YRC did not plead sufficient facts to support its motion.

Missouri Pacifio Railway Co. v. White

80 Tex. 202 · Texas Supreme Court · Mar 10, 1891

We are clearly of the opinion that no proper diligence wás used to learn what his evidence would be. … There being no officer at Anadarko or near there qualified to take depositions does not signify that the depositions may not have been had by the use of diligence.

Davis v. Skipper

125 Tex. 364 · Texas Supreme Court · Jun 5, 1935

Such an estate is a fee, because by possibility it may endure forever; but “as it depends upon the concurrence of collateral circumstances which qualify and debase the purity of the donation, it is *369 therefore a qualified … Shepard, supra, the holding is clearly set forth in the syllabus, which we quote as follows; “Land, bounded on one side by a street and on another side by a railroad, was conveyed ‘subject to the condition that no building

The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company v. Patterson-Uti Energy, Inc.; Patterson-Uti Management Services, LLC; Patterson-Uti Drilling Company LLC; And Marsh USA, Inc.

Texas Supreme Court · Dec 20, 2024

But Ohio Casualty contends that Patterson’s own legal expenses do not qualify as “loss” because they do not constitute “damages.” … For Patterson’s legal expenses to qualify as “loss,” therefore, the parties must have agreed by contract to give “damages” a specialized meaning.

Theodore Stanley Landry v. Janelle Nicole Landry

Texas Supreme Court · Mar 20, 2026

To overcome the community property presumption, a party must establish by clear and convincing evidence that the property is separate. Id. § 3.003(b). … Rice was duly qualified and accepted as an expert. He “trace[d] and clearly identif[ied]” the accounts’ funds as separate through sixteen years’ worth of bank statements. See Pearson, 332 S.W.3d at 363; supra n.1.