Who Filed What? Eric Springstun & Wharf Association Case Origins

A raw count of court docket numbers does not tell readers who actually started each dispute. This page separates original lawsuits, counterclaims, interventions, and appeals involving Eric Springstun and Wharf Marina at Clear Lake.

Why the distinction matters

A person can appear in many court records without independently initiating every proceeding. Being sued, asserting a counterclaim, intervening in an existing case, appealing an order, or filing a related review proceeding are legally different events. WharfClearLake.com therefore identifies the origin of major matters rather than simply adding up docket numbers.

Matter	How it began	Key context
23-07-10483-CV	The Wharf Association filed against Eric Springstun.	Temporary injunction denied; Association later nonsuited its affirmative claims.
24-CV-0102	Styled The Wharf at Clear Lake Slip Maintenance Association, Inc. v. Eric Springstun.	Long-running Galveston matter with later jury and appellate activity.
24-CV-1258	The Wharf sued BirdFox, LLC.	Default judgment against BirdFox, LLC; appellate opinion says Eric Springstun was not personally bound.
2025-60253	Underlying Harris County action was already pending; Eric Springstun later intervened.	Later appellate dispute concerned the intervention order and appellate jurisdiction.
1242907	Underlying dispute began between John Andrew Oleyar and Coline Suzanne Hilts; Eric Springstun later intervened.	The appeal challenges the intervention ruling and a $2,500 Chapter 9 monetary award.
09-24-00270-CV, 09-25-00308-CV, 09-25-00318-CV, 09-26-00023-CV, 01-26-00448-CV, 14-25-00202-CV, 14-26-00353-CV, 14-26-00485-CV, 14-26-00489-CV	Appellate proceedings.	Appeals request review of existing trial-court orders; they are not new original lawsuits filed in a trial court.

The Association’s 2023 suit is especially important

Cause 23-07-10483-CV is a clear example of why origin matters. The Wharf Association filed the action against Eric Springstun. After hearing, the court denied the Association’s request for a temporary injunction. The Association later filed a Notice of Nonsuit stating that it no longer wished to pursue its claims against Springstun.

Counterclaims are responses within existing litigation

When Eric Springstun asserted counterclaims in a case the Association had already filed, those counterclaims became part of the same action. Counting the underlying lawsuit and the counterclaims as though they were two separately initiated lawsuits would distort the procedural history.

Interventions are not original lawsuits either

An intervention occurs when a person enters an already-pending case claiming an interest related to the existing dispute. Eric Springstun’s Harris County intervention matters should therefore be identified as interventions in cases already on file, not as original actions he independently started.

Related docket numbers can arise from one underlying controversy

One underlying dispute can generate a trial-court cause number, a counterclaim, a consolidation order, an interlocutory appeal, a later final-judgment appeal, a rehearing request, and related cost or reporter-record proceedings. Counting each number as though it were a completely separate lawsuit independently initiated by the same person can therefore substantially distort the procedural history.

WharfClearLake.com treats docket numbers as procedural identifiers, not as a scorecard. The site groups related causes and appeals where appropriate and explains whether a matter began as an original suit, a counterclaim, an intervention, or a request for appellate review.

Appeals are review proceedings

An appellate case number reflects a request for a court of appeals to review an order or judgment entered below. It does not mean a new dispute was independently launched from scratch. Several Eric Springstun appellate matters arise directly from the same core property and Association disputes already described elsewhere on the site.

Why this is important for reputation

Search results and docket databases can make a person associated with many related proceedings appear as though they independently initiated every matter. The source record is more nuanced. WharfClearLake.com uses this page to make that nuance searchable: who filed first, what kind of proceeding followed, and what the court actually decided.

Editorial note: This page categorizes proceedings using the available court records. It does not imply that an appeal or intervention is legally insignificant; it distinguishes the procedural type so readers do not mischaracterize every docket number as a new original lawsuit.

Who Filed What? Wharf Association & Eric Springstun Case Origins