HOUSTON GENERAL INS. CO. v. ATER

No. 08-92-00364-CV.

843 S.W.2d 225 (1992)

HOUSTON GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Relator, v. The Honorable Gene ATER, Judge, Sitting By Assignment in the 358th, 161st and 70th Judicial District Courts of Ector County, Texas, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled December 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Ater, Odessa, for respondent.

M. Diane Dwight, Lance P. Bradley, Provost & Umphrey, Beaumont, Robert E. White, Childs & Bishop, Odessa, Sandy Torres, Torres & Torres, Midland, for real party.

W. Bradley Parker, Boswell & Kober, P.C., Ft. Worth, Dale Dowell, Rienstra, Dowell & Flatten, Beaumont, Steve A. Bryant, Bryant & McLean, Houston, Paul Holmes, Holmes & Harris, Barbara Barron, Mehaffy & Webber, Beaumont, Gregory H. Herrman, Allison, Huerta, Hastings & Allison, Corpus Christi, Randal Patterson, Hollman, Lyon, Patterson & Durell, Odessa, John A. Davis, Jr., Kemp, Smith, Duncan & Hammond, Midland, James L. Ware, McLeod, Alexander, Powell & Apffel, Galveston, Ronald T. Hancock, Hays, McConn, Price & Pickering, Houston, J.B. Whittenburg, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, Jennifer Kenneally, Bell & Murphy, Houston, David Grove, Benckenstein, Norvell, Bernsen & Nathan, Beaumont, Tim Yeats, Little, Palmer & Williams, Big Spring, James Rush, McMahon, Tidwell, Hansen & Atkins, Steve Ashley, Shafter, Davis, McCollum, Ashley, O'Leary & Stoker, Odessa, L.J. Decker, III, Tekell, Book, Matthews & Limmer, Houston, Ned Johnson, Benckenstein, Oxford & Johnson, Beaumont, W. Bruce Williams, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, Midland, Cecily S. Ticer, Fanning, Harper & Martinson, Martha C. Coleman, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, Michael C. Tighe, Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc., Midland, Lee Rosenthal, Baker & Botts, David Brill, Butler & Binion, Houston, Lloyd MacDonald, Turpin, Smith, Dyer, Saxe & MacDonald, Midland, for relators.

A. Christian Klemme, Hyatt, Crabtree & Moore, Dallas, for intervenor.

Before KOEHLER, BARAJAS and LARSEN, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This is an application for writ of mandamus seeking to have the Honorable Gene Ater, Judge sitting by assignment in the 70th, 161st, 244th and 358th District Courts of Ector County, Texas, removed from thirteen cases pending in those courts and to have all orders set aside. Relator contends that Judge Ater, a retired judge, was improperly assigned to hear the cases in question. Because mandamus is not a proper remedy, the application...

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