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- Title: Diversified Financial Systems, Inc. v. Hill
- Author : Texas Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 20, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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On Petition for Review from the Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas Petitioners sued respondents on promissory notes and guarantees. The trial court rendered an interlocutory summary judgment for respondents on certain claims and issued an order severing those claims into a separate cause. The order stated that the separate action should ""proceed as such to final judgment or other disposition in this Court [under a new style and cause number]."" Six weeks later, the trial court signed a final judgment in the severed cause. Petitioners timely appealed from this judgment, but the court of appeals dismissed the appeal for want of jurisdiction, holding that the interlocutory summary judgment became final the instant it was severed from the main cause. 3 S.W.3d 616. As a rule, the severance of an interlocutory judgment into a separate cause makes it final. Farmer v. Ben E. Keith Co., 907 S.W.2d 495, 496 (Tex. 1995) (per curiam). But here, the severance order expressly contemplated that the severed claims would ""proceed as such to final judgment or other disposition in this Court."" Thus, the severance order clearly precluded a final judgment in the severed action until the later judgment was signed, and petitioners' appeal was timely.
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