Government Services Insurance Underwriters v. Jones

NORVELL, Justice.

The sole question involved in this proceeding is whether or not Article 2168a, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Stat., which provides for a mandatory continuance of pending lawsuits upon application of a member of the Legislature is invalid because it is violative of Article II, § 1, of the Constitution of Texas Vernon’s Ann.St., relating to the division of the powers of government into three distinct departments. No other constitutional basis for the invalidity of the statute is here urged. In our opinion this question was determined contrary to the re*561spondent’s position in Mora v.…