IN RE MURRIN BROS. 1885, LTD.

No. 18-0737.

603 S.W.3d 53 (2019)

IN RE MURRIN BROTHERS 1885, LTD., ERI-BBTX, LLC, and Concho Minick, Individually and Derivatively on Behalf of Billy Bob's Texas Investments, LLC, Philip Murrin, and Cowtown Concessions, Inc., d/b/a River Ranch Stockyards.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: December 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall M. Searcy, Jr. , Scott Ryan Wiehle , Marcus Gerardo Mungioli , Charles (Chad) E. Baruch , Coyt (Randy) R. Johnston , John H. Cayce, Jr. , for Heather Vantrease, Brad Hickman, Carlos Green, Brenda Kostohryz, Aaron Jury, Stephanie Park and Billy Minick, Real Party in Interest.

Joe D. Tolbert , for Cowtown Concessions, Inc. and Phillip Murrin, Relator.

Russell R. Barton , Stephen Matthew Pezanosky , Justin Bernstein , Dale Wainwright , William S. Snyder , Andrew D. Sims , Daniel Polvi , Aimee Furness , Roland K. Johnson , Karen Coomer Denney , Mark Emmet Torian , for ERI-BBTX, LLC, Concho Minick and Murrin Brothers 1885, Ltd., Relator.

Coyt (Randy) R. Johnston , John H. Cayce, Jr. , Joseph "Joe" R. Greenhill, III , Marcus Gerardo Mungioli , Marshall M. Searcy Jr. , Scott Ryan Wiehle , Charles (Chad) E. Baruch , for Billy Bob's Texas Investments, LLC, Real Party in Interest.

Coyt (Randy) R. Johnston , Charles (Chad) E. Baruch , for Don Jury, Real Party in Interest.

John H. Cayce, Jr. , Scott Ryan Wiehle , Charles (Chad) E. Baruch , Marcus Gerardo Mungioli , Marshall M. Searcy, Jr. , for John Bills, Real Party in Interest.


The parties to this mandamus action are warring ownership factions of "the world's largest honky-tonk," the iconic Fort Worth establishment Billy Bob's. Both sides, the Hickman Group and the Murrin Group, assert the right to control the management of Billy Bob's. The litigation began in May 2017...

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