Saenz v. Sanders

POPE, Justice.

Relator seeks a mandamus under Article 1824, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats., compelling the district judge to set his cause of action for trial. Relator instituted suit against respondents Briggs and Killian in the District Court of Bexar County and charged them with causing an explosion resulting in damages to relator’s home. Those respondents, after proper notices and process had been issued, questioned relator, in the course of taking a pre-trial deposition, about the names of any persons who had made inspections of the claimed damages and also about their estimates of the extent of…