Guest v. Dixon

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• holding that a motion to 1 Courts give effect to the substance of a motion rather than its form or title. See Surgitek v. Abel, 997 S.W.2d 598, 601 (Tex. 1999
• assuming that the rule in Butts and McConnell survives later cases expressing the Court’s position that a party should not lose the right to appeal because of an overly technical application of the law
• finding timely filed motion to reinstate supported by affidavit sufficient to extend trial court’s plenary power
• addressing purported defect in affidavit verifying motion to reinstate and stating, “[W]e have repeatedly stressed that procedural rules should be construed and applied so that the right of appeal is not unnecessarily lost to technicalities.”

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