152 Tex. 437
259 S.W.2d 172
Decided June 24, 1953
Texas Supreme Court · decided 1953-06-24
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“"Under our view petitioner has no interest, financially or otherwise, which would authorize him to maintain this suit. Yett v. Cook, 115 Tex. 205 , 281 S.W. 837 . The trial court should therefore have dismissed the suit rather than deny the writ, but since the practical effect of the two orders is the same, no purpose would be served in granting the writ to reform the judgment. The application is therefore stamped Refused. No Reversible Error."”
quoted by 1 later decision, including Grant v. Ammerman
Relies on W.D. Yett, Mayor v. Cook
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1953-06-24
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1994
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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¶1 Under our view petitioner has no interest, financially or otherwise, which would authorize him to maintain this suit. Yett v. Cook, 115 Tex. 205, 281 S. W. 837. The trial court should therefore have dismissed the suit rather than deny the writ, but since the practical effect of the two orders is the same, no purpose would be served in granting the writ to reform the judgment. The application is therefore stamped Refused. No Reversible Error.
¶2 Opinion delivered June 24, 1953.