City of Dallas v. Vaughan

DEVANY, Justice.

Relator, the City of Dallas, complains that respondent, the Honorable Ken Vaughan, abused his discretion by reversing the judgment of the non-record municipal court as to a traffic violation and remanding the cause back to the municipal court for a trial on the record rather than conducting a trial de novo. Relator seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent to conduct a trial de novo in appeal number A1-87-0224-CV. For the reasons given below, we conditionally grant the writ.

On September 10, 1987, real party in interest Alón N. Revelman received a traffic citation for…