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PIKE v. TEXAS EMC MANAGEMENT, LLC

No. 17-0557.

610 S.W.3d 763 (2020)

Clinton W. ("Buddy") PIKE, Sr., Daniel L. Walker, W. Tobin Wilson, VHSC Cement, LLC, and Few Ready Mix Concrete Co., Petitioners, v. TEXAS EMC MANAGEMENT, LLC, Texas EMC Products, LP, and EMC cement, BV, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: June 19, 2020.

Rehearing Denied October 2, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angus Earl McSwain , Beard Kultgen Brophy Bostwick Dickson, C. Alfred Mackenzie , West, Webb, Allbritton & Gentry, P.C., Steven Gregory White , Gray Reed & McGraw LLP, Waco, Charles T. Frazier Jr. , Alexander Dubose Jefferson & Townsend LLP, Dallas, Lisa M. Norman , Robert A. Plessala , William Benjamin Westcott , Andrews & Myers, PC, Houston, Joe B. Cannon , Cannon & Wilson PC, Groesbeck, for Petitioners Few Ready Mix Concrete Co., Daniel L. Walker, W. Tobin Wilson.

Nina Cortell , Allen Ryan Paulsen , Andrew W. Guthrie , Ben L. Mesches , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, Joe B. Cannon , Cannon & Wilson PC, Groesbeck, Mark R. Trachtenberg , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Houston, Michael A. Hatchell , Haynes & Boone LLP, Austin, for Petitioner Clinton W. Pike, Sr.

Nina Cortell , Allen Ryan Paulsen , Andrew W. Guthrie , Ben L. Mesches , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, Lisa M. Norman , Robert A. Plessala , William Benjamin Westcott , Andrews & Myers, PC, Mark R. Trachtenberg , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Houston, Joe B. Cannon , Cannon & Wilson PC, Groesbeck, Michael A. Hatchell , Haynes & Boone LLP, Austin, for Petitioner VHSC Cement, LLC.

Herbert J. Hammond , James Michael Heinlen , Richard B. Phillips Jr. , Thompson & Knight LLP, Daniel J. Sheehan Jr. , John M. Phalen Jr. , Daniel Sheehan & Associates, PLLC, Jeffrey S. Levinger , Levinger PC, Michael Patrick McShan , The Beckham Group, Scott P. Stolley , Stolley Law, P.C., Dallas, Bobby L. Reed , Reed & Reed, LLP, Groesbeck, Craig D. Cherry , Joshua John White , Haley & Olson, P.C., Waco, for Respondents.

Justice Busby delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice Hecht, Justice Green, Justice Guzman, Justice Lehrmann, Justice Boyd, Justice Devine, and Justice Blacklock joined, and in Part IV of which Justice Bland joined.

In this case, we address multiple issues arising out of the breakup of a limited partnership created to produce and market a new cement product. The partnership, its general partner, and the limited partner that supplied the cement-making technology sued the limited partners responsible for funding, the partnership's general manager, and the companies that foreclosed on and purchased the partnership's assets; those defendants asserted counterclaims. After a jury trial, the...

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