Texas Supreme Court
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Petitioner v. the Estate of Darla Blackmon, by Its Beneficiary…
June 9, 200649 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 723
Summary
The Texas Supreme Court held that the plaintiff's filing of a nonsuit while an interlocutory appeal was pending extinguished the case or controversy, thereby depriving the Court of Appeals of jurisdiction; the Court vacated the appellate order and dismissed the appeal for want of jurisdiction.