Lone Star Life Insurance Co. v. Street

OPINION

HILL, Justice.

In this original proceeding, Lone Star Life Insurance Company seeks a writ of mandamus compelling the Honorable John Street, Judge of the 352nd District Court of Tarrant County, to vacate his order of September 5, 1985, deeming certain requests for admissions admitted and ordering Lone Star to pay $1,050 in attorney’s fees as sanctions for not timely filing answers to interrogatories. Lone Star faced the threat of a default judgment if the attorney’s fees were not paid.

We conditionally grant the writ, because we find that the trial court abused its discretion in ordering…