WALLACE v. BRIGGS

No. A-8394.

348 S.W.2d 523 (1961)

W. F. WALLACE, Sr., Relator, v. Hon. Cullen W. BRIGGS, District Judge, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyman & Sudduth, Corpus Christi, for relator.

Matthews, Nowlin, Macfarlane & Barrett, San Antonio, King, Anderson & Porter, Corpus Christi, for respondents.


CULVER, Justice.

The relator prays for a writ of mandamus to the Honorable Cullen W. Briggs, Judge of the 117th Judicial District of Nueces County, requiring him to rescind an interlocutory order in a divorce suit entitled Mary Ethel Pope Wallace v. W. F. Wallace, Sr. that commanded relator Wallace to pay over to respondent wife the sum of $10,500 for attorneys' fees and $1,300 for future expenses that may be incurred by her in the prosecution of this divorce action...

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