Hoover v. Texas Department of Public Safety

Harry Christian Hoover, Jr. relator, with our permission on July 22, 1957 filed a petition wherein he aslcs us to issue a writ of mandamus directing Texas Department of Public Safety (hereinafter called Department) to issue to him an automobile driver’s licensé in renewal of his present license, which expires by its own terms on August 5, 1957. Hoover asserts that the issuance of the writ is necessary to preserve and protect our jurisdiction of an appeal now pending in this court in which he is appellee, said appeal being No. 15,362, styled “Texas Department of Public Safety v. Harry…