MELLON SERVICE CO. v. TOUCHE ROSS & CO.

No. 14-96-00129-CV.

946 S.W.2d 862 (1997)

MELLON SERVICE COMPANY and Patricia Ann Love, Individually and as Trustee of the Don O. Love Qualified Term Interest Trust, Appellants, v. TOUCHE ROSS & CO., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

May 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Corn, Houston, for appellants.

M. Byron Wilder, Dallas, for appellee.

Before AMIDEI, FOWLER and EDELMAN, JJ.


OPINION

FOWLER, Justice.

In this appeal we must decide whether a visiting district judge, duly appointed to hear a case in the 333rd District Court in Houston, Harris County, Texas had the authority to hold a summary judgment hearing and grant a motion to allow a late-filed affidavit in the case while he was sitting in Galveston County for another district court. Because we conclude that the summary judgment hearing was a "proceeding" as described by article...

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