Legal Opinion
In Re Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided January 6, 2000No. 08-99-00257-CVPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Relator (Wal-Mart), seeks mandamus relief to compel the 171st District Court of El Paso County to vacate its order setting the underlying case for trial and to cease exercising jurisdiction over the matter because the case has been dismissed for want of prosecution. We conditionally grant the writ of mandamus.
FACTUAL SUMMARY
Mario, Hermelinda, and Andres Garcia, the Real Parties in Interest (the Garcias), filed a slip and fall premises liability case against Wal-Mart on July 21, 1995. On September 8, 1997, the trial court issued a…
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