Commercial Travelers Life Insurance Co. v. Spears

REAVLEY, Justice.

This original mandamus proceeding attacks the validity of an order of a trial judge directing discovery of the insurance company’s claim files, by which the names and addresses of the members of an alleged class, whose members’ claims were denied for a common reason, are to be revealed to their representative in the class action. Commercial Travelers Life Insurance Company, relator, complains of Honorable Franklin S. Spears, Judge of the 57th Judicial District Court of Bexar County, and of Rose Richter, by and through her next friend, Edward L. Fort, Jr., individually, and as…