NUECES COUNTY v. DE PENA

No. 13-97-447-CV.

953 S.W.2d 835 (1997)

NUECES COUNTY, Texas, Relator, v. The Honorable Hector DE PENA, Jr., Judge of the County Court at Law No. 2 of Nueces County, Texas, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled October 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall Lewis Meredith, Asst. County Atty., Carl Lewis, County Atty., Corpus Christi, for Relator.

William H. Berry, Jr., Gail D.C. Dorn, Corpus Christi, Ronald A. Simank, Schauer, Simank & Ledbetter, Corpus Christi, James Thomas Parsons, Austin, for Real Parties in Interest.

Before SEERDEN, C.J., and FEDERICO G. HINOJOSA, Jr. and YANEZ, JJ.


OPINION

SEERDEN, Chief Justice.

This is an original mandamus proceeding by which Nueces County challenges the authority of the trial court to order its county judge to attend a mediation conference on a lawsuit against the county. After reviewing both the petition for mandamus relief, the real parties' in interest response, as well as, their additional response filed on August 22, 1997, we conditionally grant mandamus relief without requiring oral argument...

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