Aldine Independent School District v. Moore

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

Relator, Aldine Independent School District seeks a writ of mandamus to compel respondent, the Honorable Louis M. Moore, Judge of the 281st Judicial District Court of Harris County, to rescind that portion of his order signed February 18, 1985, which required relator to deposit the sum of $1,375 into the court’s registry for the payment of attorney ad litem fees. We conditionally grant the requested relief.

Relator filed this mandamus in connection with its pending suit against a defendant taxpayer to collect delinquent ad valo-rem taxes. In that suit, the trial…