of subject-matter jurisdiction can be made in a preliminary hearing or should await a fuller development of the merits of the case must be left largely to the trial court’s sound exercise of discretion. Bland, Indep. Sch. Dist., 34 S.W.3d at 555. A. Standing to Sue for Negligence and Negligent Misrepresentation Standing to sue on the common-law claims of negligence and negligent misrepresentation must be determined by common-law rules. We turn to those principles now. Some of the most recent Texas Supreme Court cases on standing ask whether the plaintiff is “personally aggrieved.” See Nootsie, Ltd. v. Williamson County Appraisal Dist., 925 S.W.2d 659, 661 (Tex.1996) (“A plaintiff has standing when it is personally aggrieved.”); see also M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr., 52 S.W.3d at 707-08 (<HOLDING>); Coastal Liquids Transp., L.P. v. Harris
holding officer personally liable because he agreed to personally guarantee payment on an account holding that a suspect must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law that he has the right to the presence of an attorney and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires holding that a transfer was not voidable because of the lack of any evidence such as appraisals or opinion testimony of the actual value of real properties holding that plaintiffs lack of any actual or threatened injury prevents him from being personally aggrieved such that he has any personal stake in the litigation holding that absent any actual evidence of injury the plaintiffs allegations were too vague to establish the jurisdictional floor for damages