Houston Fire & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Gerhardt

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an application' for an original writ of mandamus ordering the Hon. Raymond Gerhardt to proceed to judgment in a certain cause No. F-83,472, styled Isabel Garcia et al. v. Houston Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, pending in the 45th District Court of Bexar County, Texas. It is the contention of the relator, who was the defendant below, that the jury impaneled in said cause returned a special issue verdict which is sufficient to support a judgment, and that the rendition of such judgment upon the verdict is a ministerial act which may be compelled by mandamus. Article…