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IN RE MASONITE CORP.

Nos. 97-0884, 97-0885.

997 S.W.2d 194 (1999)

In re MASONITE CORP., Abitibi-Price Corp., and MG Building Materials, Inc., Relators (Two Cases).

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 17, 1999.

Rehearing Overruled August 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Luke Ashley, Dallas, Gregory S. Meece, Patricia A. Nolan, James Edward Maloney, Claudia Wilson Frost, Macey Reasoner Stokes, Houston, J.G. "Buster" Adami, Jr., Alice, Jennifer Mary Smith, Houston, Rebecca R. Kieschnick, Corpus Christi, for Relator.

Russell H. McMains, Corpus Christi, Hector Gonzalez, Robert G. Smith, Alice, Jack Modesett, III, Corpus Christi, for Respondent.

Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice ABBOTT, and Justice CHEW,1 join.

We are asked to mandamus a trial judge who, in the face of the plaintiffs' concession that venue was improper and the defendants' properly pleaded and proven venue transfer motions, denied the motions but then "on its own motion" transferred hundreds of claims to multiple counties none of which were forums requested...

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