Mother Hubbard and Summary Judgment

To the right, Mother Hubbard plays well with her dog, but in Eagle Remodel LLC v. Capital Financial Corp., Mother Hubbard did not play well with a summary-judgment order: “Appellant asserts in a letter brief filed at our direction that the order is appealable because appellee did not file a counterclaim for fees and the order included a ‘Mother Hubbard’ clause stating that ‘All relief not expressly granted herein is denied.’ As appellee notes in its response, however, a ‘Mother Hubbard’ clause is not indicative of finality when, as here, a conventional trial on the merits was not held.” No. 05-21-00625-CV (Jan. 5, 2022) (mem. op.) (applying Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191 (Tex. 2001)).