AUTHORLEE v. TUBOSCOPE VETCO INTERN., INC.

No. 01-06-00719-CV.

274 S.W.3d 111 (2008)

Anthony AUTHORLEE, Dexter Burnett, Robert Derousselle, John Henry Young, Jerome Stubblefield, and Floyd Moran, Appellants, v. TUBOSCOPE VETCO INTERNATIONAL, INC., AMF Incorporated, and Minstar, Inc., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Dissenting Opinion October 2, 2008.

Rehearing Overruled October 7, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Skepnek, Skepnek, Fagan, Meyer & Davis, P.A., Lawrence, KS, Steven Smoot, Smoot Law Firm, P.C., Frank W. Mitchell, Frank W. Mitchell & Associates, LLP, Houston, for appellants.

Philip T. Bruns, Jeffrey C. Kubin, Laura Hanley Carlock, Gibbs & Bruns, L.L.P., Troy Ray Ford, Andrea Jean Irey Paterson, Beck, Redden & Secrest, L.L.P., Houston, for appellees.

Panel consists of Justices NUCHIA, KEYES, and HIGLEY.


OPINION

SAM NUCHIA, Justice.

In six issues, appellants, who were settling plaintiffs in the underlying lawsuit, seek to overturn the trial court's denial of their motion for new trial. Appellants argue here, as they did in the trial court, that their agreed judgment should be set aside as "void as against public policy" because their trial lawyers did not tell them it was an aggregate settlement and because their...

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