Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. v. Hopkins

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This is an original application for writ of mandamus brought by Fireman’s Fund Indemnity Company, relator herein, to require Hon. W. B. Hopkins, Judge of the District Court of the 28th Judicial District, respondent herein, to render judgment upon the verdict of a jury in the case of Sloan Fortenberry, Jr., v. Fireman's Fund Indemnity Company, numbered 17,911-A on the docket of said Court, in which, after verdict, a mistrial had been ordered on motion of the plaintiff, the employee, upon the sole ground that the verdict included conflicting findings of the jury upon…