NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES v. GODBEY

No. 95-0401.

924 S.W.2d 123 (1996)

NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES, INC. and Psychiatric Institutes of America, Inc. n/k/a NME Psychiatric Hospitals, Inc. and Ron Cronen, Relators, v. Honorable David C. GODBEY, Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Carnes, Robert B. Krakow, Dallas, Robert H. Fairbank, Los Angeles, CA, Stacy L. Brainin, Arnold A. Spencer, Dallas, Craig Dummit, Los Angeles, CA, Barry F. McNeil, Austin, for relators.

Ronald L. Palmer, Larry D. Carlson, Samara L. Kline, Parks W. Bell, Dallas, Joe R. Greenhill, Austin, for respondent.


HECHT, Justice, delivered the opinion of the court in which PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, and GONZALEZ, CORNYN, SPECTOR, OWEN and ABBOTT, Justices, joined.

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