LONE STAR INDUSTRIES, INC. v. ATER

No. 08-92-00363-CV.

845 S.W.2d 334 (1992)

LONE STAR INDUSTRIES, INC., Pauli and Griffin Company, and Texas Mining Company, Relators, v. The Honorable Gene ATER, Visiting District Judge, Ector County, Texas, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled December 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Hughes, McLeod, Alexander, Powel & Apffel, P.C., Michele B. Chimene, Galveston, Jennifer Keneally, Bell & Murphy, Houston, Ned Johnson, Benckenstein, Oxford & Johnson, Dale Dowell, Rienstra, Dowell & Flatten, Beaumont, Steve A. Bryant, Bryant & McLean, Houston, Paul Holmes, Holmes & Harris, Beaumont, Mike Watkins, McMahon, Tidwell, Hansen, Atkins & Fowler, P.C., Odessa, Barbara Barron, Jim I. Graves, Mehaffy & Webber, Beaumont, Gregory H. Herrman, Allison, Huerta, Hastings & Allison, Corpus Christi, Randal Patterson, Hollman, Lyon, Patterson & Durell, Odessa, John A. Davis, Jr., J. Don Westbrook, Patrick S. Gerald, Kemp, Smith, Duncan & Hammond, Midland, Ronald T. Hancock, Hays, McConn, Price & Pickering, Houston, C. Victor Haley, Fairchild, Price, Russell, Thomas & Haley, Center, Robert L. Craig, Jr., Carr, Fouts, Hunt, Craig, Terrill & Wolfe, Lubbock, J.B. Whittenburg, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, Timothy D. Yeats, Williams & Yeats, Big Springs, James Rush, McMahon, Tidwell, Hansen & Atkins, James M. O'Leary, Steve Ashley, Shafer, Davis, McCollum, Ashley, O'Leary & Stoker, Odessa, L.J. Decker, III, Tekell, Book, Matthews & Limmer, Edward J. Hennessy, Hennessy & Zito, Houston, Gilbert T. Adams, Law Office of Gilbert T. Adams, Beaumont, W. Bradley Parker, Boswell & Kober, Fort Worth, Roger L. McCleary, Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, Houston, David Bridges, Law Offices of Jack W. Jones, Temple, W. Bruce Williams, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, Midland, Cecily S. Ticer, Fanning, Harper & Martinson, Dallas, Lloyd MacDonald, Turpin, Smith, Dyer, Saxe & MacDonald, Midland, Jerry L. Beane, Martha C. Coleman, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, David Brill, Butler & Binion, Houston, Roy Bell, Law Office of Roy L. Bell, Odessa, David W. Ledyard, Strong, Pipin, Nelson & Bissell, Beaumont, Richard S. Crowther, Mills, Shirley, Eckel & Bassett, Galveston, John R. Dolezal, Weller, Wheelus & Green, Beaumont, Steven C. Kiser, Lonnie Hobbs, Lynch, Chappell & Alsup, Midland, for relators.

Gene Ater, pro se.

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

Terry Hyatt, Hyatt, Crabtree & Moore, Dallas, Michael C. Tighe, Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc., Midland, 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. Relators contend 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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