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EX PARTE HUGHES

No. C-6549.

759 S.W.2d 118 (1988)

Ex parte Thomas P. HUGHES, District Clerk of Tarrant County.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Krendell, Grey Pierson, Pierson, Galyen & Baker, Arlington, D. Nicholas Acuff, Acuff & Keis, Fort Worth, for relator.

Rex McEntire, H.G. Wells, Fort Worth, for respondent.

OPINION

RAY, Justice.

This case involves the authority of a district judge to hold the district clerk in contempt for failing to comply with the judge's order to mail the trial docket to attorneys with cases pending before the district court. Upon assuming his duties as district clerk of Tarrant County, relator, Thomas P. Hughes, discontinued that court's customary practice of mailing copies of the trial docket to attorneys with cases pending before the...

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