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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1945 / Served to 1957

Few Brewster

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Few Brewster was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1957
Tenure: 1945–1957 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Howard Payne University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brewster authored 139 published opinions for the court (1941–1957), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Alexander v. Hagedorn (511 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 23 of these were attributed to Brewster by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1950	Alexander v. Hagedorn	226 S.W.2d 996	511
1949	Bowles v. Bourdon†	148 Tex. 1	325
1947	Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Scharrenbeck†	146 Tex. 153	325
1947	Ramsey v. Dunlop†	146 Tex. 196	211
1946	International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union v. Smith· Dissent	198 S.W.2d 729	168
1942	Northeast Texas Motor Lines, Inc. v. Hodges	158 S.W.2d 487	147
1957	State v. Richards· Dissent†	301 S.W.2d 597	146
1951	Staats v. Miller	243 S.W.2d 686	140
1948	Forwood v. City of Taylor	214 S.W.2d 282	121
1945	Cowden v. Cowden	186 S.W.2d 69	120
1950	Othen v. Rosier	226 S.W.2d 622	112
1948	Harkey v. Texas Employers Insurance	208 S.W.2d 919	108
1943	Collins v. Smith	175 S.W.2d 407	103
1951	Wood v. Kane Boiler Works, Inc.	238 S.W.2d 172	100
1944	Honea, by Next Friend v. Coca Cola Bot. Co.	183 S.W.2d 968	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 143 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Few Brewster on?: Few Brewster was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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12 years on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).