Montfort v. Daviss

The purpose of this proceeding is to compel Hon. H. B. Daviss, judge of the Thirteenth judicial district of Texas, to proceed to trial and judgment agreeably to the principles and usages of law in a cause now pending in said district court, and for which purposes this court is requested to issue the writ of mandamus authorized in such cases by article 1595, Vernon’s Say les’ Texas Civil Statutes.

October 6, 1919, in cause No. 10679, W. F. Montfort et al. v. Commissioners’ Court et al., pending in the Thirteenth judicial district, respondent, by order entered upon the petition in said…