Opinion
No. 04-15-00521-CV
09-09-2015
ESTATE OF REBECCA QUIRIN MARSHALL, Deceased
MEMORANDUM OPINION
From the Probate Court No. 1, Bexar County, Texas
Trial Court No. 2014-PC-3055
Honorable Kelly Cross, Judge Presiding
PER CURIAM Sitting: Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice Jason Pulliam, Justice PETITION FOR PERMISSIVE APPEAL DENIED; REMANDED
Rebecca Quirin Marshall and others sued Respondents over title to a mineral estate and reversionary interests in three leases. After Rebecca Quirin Marshall passed away, some claims were nonsuited, and a probate proceeding was initiated in Bexar County Probate Court No. 1. Petitioner Rebecca Genevieve Hanna, as Independent Executrix of the Estate of Rebecca Quirin Marshall, Deceased, maintained the suit against Respondents Turnbull Land & Cattle, Ltd., Paul R. Turnbull, III, Individually, Rebecca Turnbull Crow, Individually, and PRTJRT, LLC. The parties filed competing motions for summary judgment, and the trial court granted Respondents' motion and denied Petitioner's motion. The suit was then transferred to the probate court, and the court signed an order granting permission for a permissive appeal. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(d) (West 2014); TEX. R. APP. P. 28.3; TEX. R. CIV. P. 168.
The Honorable Stella Saxon, former presiding judge of the 81st District Court of Karnes County, Texas.
The Honorable Kelly Cross, presiding judge of Bexar County Probate Court No. 1, signed the order. --------
Generally, an order that does not dispose of all claims and all parties is interlocutory and is not an appealable order. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001); Gulley v. State Farm Lloyds, 350 S.W.3d 204, 206 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2011, no pet.). The legislature has authorized interlocutory appeals in certain exceptions, TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014, but we construe those exceptions narrowly, Bally Total Fitness Corp. v. Jackson, 53 S.W.3d 352, 355 (Tex. 2001); Gulley, 350 S.W.3d at 206.
Here, the trial court's order granting permission to appeal does not "state why an immediate appeal may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation." Contra TEX. R. CIV. P. 168; Gulf Coast Asphalt Co., L.L.C. v. Lloyd, 457 S.W.3d 539, 545 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2015, no pet.). To the contrary, the order notes "the case should be prepared for trial since there are other issues that need to be developed for trial." Contra TEX. R. CIV. P. 168; Gulf Coast Asphalt, 457 S.W.3d at 545.
Having considered the petition, we conclude it failed to meet the requirements for a permissive appeal. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(d); TEX. R. APP. P. 28.3; TEX. R. CIV. P. 168; Gulf Coast Asphalt, 457 S.W.3d at 545. We deny the petition and remand this cause to the trial court.
PER CURIAM