Boswell, O'Toole, Davis & Pickering v. Stewart

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

This is a proceeding on a petition for writ of mandamus in which relator asks that the Honorable Wells Stewart, Judge of the Court of Domestic Relations of Harris County, be ordered to proceed to trial and judgment on relator’s cause of action asserted by petition in intervention in the cause styled In the Matter of the Marriage of Jeanne B. Townsend and John Darius Townsend, Jr.

Relator filed its petition in intervention seeking to recover, from both the parties to the divorce suit, attorney’s fees for services rendered to Mrs. Townsend concerning the divorce. Mr.…