Dallas Railway & Terminal Co. v. Watkins

Mr. Judge HICKMAN

delivered the opinion for the court.

Relator by its motion seeks leave of this Court to file a petition for a writ of mandamus requiring and commanding Honorable Royall R. Watkins, as District Judge of the 95th Judicial District of Dallas County, to enter judgment for the defendant in Cause No. 100457-A/D, pending in that court, wherein B. H. Duncan and wife, Ina Mae Duncan, are plaintiffs, and relator is defendant.

It is made to appear that Judge Watkins refused to enter judgment on the verdict of the jury and declared a mistrial for the sole and only reason that the answers…