Ed Grote v. Chief Justice P.R. Price

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus against the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth Supreme Judicial District, at El Paso, to require them to certify the questions of law involved in a plea of privilege case.

The petition shows that the suit was filed by the relator, Ed Grote, in Nueces County, against J. C. Minus, of Bexar County, Texas, and Service Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation doing business in Texas, with its principal office in Bexar County, Texas, to. recover damages for an alleged libel and slander. On April 28, 1939, Minus filed a statutory plea of privilege to be…