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TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE / RULE 49
TRCP 49: Where several counts
Effect of a defective count when entire damages are awarded on several counts.
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Where there are several counts in the petition, and entire damages are given, the verdict or judgment, as the case may be, shall be good, notwithstanding one or more of such counts may be defective.