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Historical Opinions

Fourteenth Court of Appeals
Houston, Texas

OPINIONS DATED AUGUST 24, 2000


Civil

Published:  

14-97-00162-CV

Susan Camille Lee, et al.
v.
Ronald E. Lee, Jr., et al.
  MOTION FOR REHEARING OVERRULED
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Anderson and Hudson
  Opinion by:   Hon. J. Harvey Hudson
  Trial court:  Harris County Probate Court No. 2 (Hon. Mike Wood)
  For appellant:  Thomas A. Zabel, Daniel J. Sheehan, and Marc S. Culp
  For appellee:  Adam P. Schiffer, Thomas B. Greene, III, D. Gibson Walton, Marie R. Yeates, and R. Glen Rigby


14-99-00235-CV

Texas Department of Public Safety
v.
Thomas Ivan Kreipe
  REVERSED AND RENDERED
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Majority Opinion by:   Hon. Paul C. Murphy
  Dissenting Opinion by:  Hon. Don Wittig
  Trial court:  Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 4 (Hon. Cynthia Crowe)
  For appellant:  Louis Arthur Beaty and M. Scott Bresk
  For appellee:  John C. Osborne


14-99-00504-CV

Orville Berg and Ruth Berg
v.
AMF, Inc., et al.
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Frost, Dunn (Dunn sitting by assignment)
  Opinion by:   Hon. John S. Anderson
  Trial court:  190th District Court (Hon. John Devine)
  For appellant:  Scott A. Hooper and Jason A. Gibson
  For appellee:  Thomas R. Fox, JoAnn Storey, Daniel F. Shank, and Angela B. Daniels


14-00-00004-CV

Maya Angelou
v.
African Overseas Union
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Wittig and Frost
  Opinion by:   Hon. Don Wittig
  Trial court:  234th District Court (Hon. Scott Brister)
  For appellant:  Melvin Houston
  For appellee:  James Clay Crawford


 
Unpublished: (Opinions not designated for publication have no precedential value and must not be cited as authority. See Tex. R. App. P. 47.7)

14-98-01273-CV

Sofamor, S.N.C.
v.
Ettie Bernice Reed
  AFFIRMED ON CONDITION OF REMITTITUR
  Panel:  Justices Sears, Cannon, and Lee (Metropolitan Court Backlog Reduction Task Force)
  Opinion by:   Hon. Bill Cannon (sitting by assignment)
  Trial court:  125th District Court (Hon. Don Wittig)
  For appellant:  William A. Worthington, John Kevin Spiller, Alan Brandt Daughtry, and David Richman
  For appellee:  Richard N. Countiss and Patrick C. Patterson


14-99-00188-CV

Jackson Hsu and Shzoa Jing Hus
v.
Agnes Su-Chian Wang, Jackson Wang, and Jason Wang
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Fowler, and Edelman
  Trial court:  Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 3 (Hon. Lynn Bradshaw-Hull)
  For appellant:  Jeffrey W. Gillespie
  For appellee:  Brent Alan Benoit, Mallory Wade Turner, and Mary Jo Cantu


14-99-00272-CV

Paul Douglas Gonzales and Kenneth A. Gonzales
v.
Brazos River Harbor Navigation District
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Yates, Hudson, and Edelman
  Opinion by:  Hon. Richard H. Edelman
  Trial court:  149th District Court (Hon. Robert E. May)
  For appellant:  Jim Wiginton and C. Wayne Holder
  For appellee:  Robert Joseph Killeen


14-99-00275-CV

Attorney General of Texas
v.
Edward V. Hawes
  DISMISSED AND INJUNCTION DISSOLVED
  Panel:  Justices Fowler, Edelman, and Frost
  Opinion by:  Hon. Kem Thompson Frost
  Trial court:  245th District Court (Hon. Annette Galik)
  For appellant:  Rhonda Amkraut Pressley
  For appellee:  Elizabeth Meador Bruman and Golda R. Jacob


14-99-00715-CV

Edna N. Patin
v.
Robert F. Carver, Phelps-Tointon d/b/a Southern Steel Company, and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. d/b/a Southern Steel
  REVERSED AND REMANDED
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Opinion by:  Hon. J. Harvey Hudson
  Trial court:  164th District Court (Hon. Katie Kennedy)
  For appellant:  Helen A. Cassidy and Steve A. Bryant
  For appellee:  Stephanie Lyn O'Rourke, James Kerby Jopling, and Jerry D. Conner


14-99-00798-CV

Texoil, Inc.
v.
1600 Smith Street Venture
  REVERSED AND REMANDED
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Fowler, and Frost
  Opinion by:  Hon. Kem Thompson Frost
  Trial court:  189th District Court (Hon. Jeff Work)
  For appellant:  Robert A. Axelrad and Elizabeth M. Bruman
  For appellee:  Ann Christine Witte


14-99-00974-CV

Don McCaffety
v.
Glencairn Community Improvement Association
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Hudson, Fowler and Edelman
  Trial court:  61st District Court
  For appellant:  Pro se
  For appellee:  Terry H. Sears


14-99-01079-CV

In the Matter of S.R.
  AFFIRMED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Yates, Fowler, and Edelman
  Trial court:  315th District Court (Hon. Kent Ellis)
  For appellant:  Frumencio Reyes, Jr. and Marc D. Isenberg
  For appellee:  Calvin A. Hartmann


14-99-01207-CV

Sam Texas a/k/a Sam Fayad
v.
Fox Television Stations, Inc., Ned Hibberd, Reporter, Jerry Marcus, General Manager, and Denise Bishop, News Director
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Trial court:  215th District Court (Hon. Levi Benton)
  For appellant:  Richard S. Browne
  For appellee:  William W. Ogden


14-00-00045-CV

Deborah Ann Campbell
v.
John Richard Campbell
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Amidei, Anderson, and Frost
  Trial court:  245th District Court (Hon. Annette Galik)
  For appellant:  Robert C. Bard
  For appellee:  Ronald A. Bass


14-00-00142-CV

Maurice Mitchell
v.
Houston Housing & Urban Development & Garden City Apartment Complex, Ltd.
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Trial court:  133rd District Court (Hon. Lamar McCorkle)
  For appellant:  Pro se
  For appellee:  Mary C. Thompson, David S. Masquelette, and Sandra D. Hachem


14-00-00425-CV

Monique Daniels
v.
Avis Rent-A-Car, Inc.
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Fowler, and Edelman
  Trial court:  270th District Court (Hon. Brent Gamble)
  For appellant:  Thomas Ernest Freeman
  For appellee:  Robert Joseph Celedonia


14-00-00505-CV

Rosa Bautista, Eduardo Covarrubias, Evelyn Morales, Elisa Flores, Rodolfo Guiterrez, Jorge Nunez, and Al Simo
v.
Texas Colonial Homes, Inc. and George Kopecky, Individually
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Trial court:  151st District Court
  For appellant:  Marco Antonio Sapien
  For appellee:  Patricia Hair


14-00-00690-CV

Texas Department of Criminal Justice, by and through the Attorney General of the State of Texas
v.
Linda G. Walker a/k/a Linda G. Walker Layton
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Amidei, Anderson, and Frost
  Trial court:  151st District Court (Hon. Caroline Baker)
  For appellant:  Kevin Robert Lashus
  For appellee:  Eric S. Hagstette


14-00-00773-CV

Harris County Deputies Organization and Ed Christensen
v.
Kaarin Holley
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Fowler, and Edelman
  Trial court:  157th District Court (Hon. David M. Medina)
  For appellant:  Elizabeth Trevino Guillen and Kenneth Clayton Garner
  For appellee:  Kenneth D. Hughes


Criminal

Published:  

14-99-00234-CR

Elwood Webber
v.
The State of Texas
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Frost, and Lee (Lee sitting by assignment)
  Opinion by:   Hon. Kem Thompson Frost
  Trial court:  Brazos County Court at Law No. 2 (Hon. Rick Davis)
  For appellant:  Stephen Gustitis
  For appellee:  William D. Ballard, Jr.


14-99-00483-CR

Johnny Gibson
v.
The State of Texas
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Frost, and Lee (Lee sitting by assignment)
  Opinion by:   Hon. Kem Thompson Frost
  Trial court:  185th District Court (Hon. Lee Duggan)
  For appellant:  James L. Mount
  For appellee:  Rikke Burke Graber


14-00-00394-CR

Kambiz Dahesh
v.
The State of Texas
  DISMISSED
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Opinion by:   Hon. J. Harvey Hudson
  Trial court:  Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 9 (Hon. Analia Wilkerson)
  For appellant:  Ned Gill, III
  For appellee:  Alan Curry


 
Unpublished: (Opinions not designated for publication have no precedential value and must not be cited as authority. See Tex. R. App. P. 47.7)

14-99-00099-CR

James Beede
v.
The State of Texas
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Amidei, Anderson, and Frost
  Opinion by:   Hon. Kem Thompson Frost
  Trial court:  208th District Court (Hon. Denise Collins)
  For appellant:  Anthony Osso
  For appellee:  Barbara Anne Drumheller


14-99-00155-CR

Alvin William Allen
v.
The State of Texas
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Yates, Fowler, and Edelman
  Opinion by:   Hon. Leslie Brock Yates
  Trial court:  182nd District Court (Hon. Jeannine Barr)
  For appellant:  Jani J. Maselli
  For appellee:  S. Elaine Roch


14-99-00422-CR

John Joseph O'Connor
v.
The State of Texas
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Opinion by:   Hon. J. Harvey Hudson
  Trial court:  240th District Court (Hon. J. Bradley Smith)
  For appellant:  Lynn Foster
  For appellee:  John Harrity, III


14-99-00476-CR

Lisa Sherae Dettling
v.
The State of Texas
  AFFIRMED
  Panel:  Justices Yates, Fowler, and Edelman
  Opinion by:   Hon. Wanda McKee Fowler
  Trial court:  179th District Court (Hon. Mike Wilkinson)
  For appellant:  Rebecca Stewart Coulson
  For appellee:  Alan Curry


14-99-00829-CR
14-99-00830-CR

The State of Texas
v.
Arturo Gonzalez Rivera
  REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART; AFFIRMED IN PART
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Opinion by:  Hon. J. Harvey Hudson
  Trial court:  Brazoria County Court at Law No. 1 (Hon. Jerri Lee Mills)
  For appellant:  Jennifer Leigh Hughes
  For appellee:  Michael Echevarria


14-99-00989-CR

Steven Lee Douglas
v.
The State of Texas
  DISMISSED
  Panel:  Justices Anderson, Fowler, and Edelman
  Opinion by:   Hon. Wanda McKee Fowler
  Trial court:  178th District Court (Hon. William T. Harmon)
  For appellant:  Pro se
  For appellee:  Calvin A. Hartmann


14-99-01069-CR

Servando Olivarez
v.
The State of Texas
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Trial court:  183rd District Court (Hon. Joan Huffman)
  For appellant:  Frumencio Reyes, Jr.
  For appellee:  Julie Klibert


14-00-00301-CR
14-00-00302-CR

Mario Jose Morales
v.
The State of Texas
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Trial court:  177th District Court (Hon. Carol Davis)
  For appellant:  Connie Brown Williams
  For appellee:  Calvin A. Hartmann


14-00-00388-CR

The State of Texas
v.
Isaiah R. Jones, Surety (Ana Bell Gonzalez)
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Chief Justice Murphy and Justices Hudson and Wittig
  Trial court:  Brazos County Court at Law (Hon. Glynis Gore)
  For appellant:  Judith Magness
  For appellee:  Bill Jones


14-00-00903-CR

Eddie Lee Bishop
v.
The State of Texas
  DISMISSED (Per curiam)
  Panel:  Justices Amidei, Anderson, and Frost
  Trial court:  339th District Court (Hon. Caprice Cosper)
  For appellant:  Joseph Salhab
  For appellee:  Calvin A. Hartmann


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