Collins v. Brown

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus ordering the Hon. Joe Frazier Brown, Judge of the Special Criminal District Court of Bexar County, Texas, to proceed to the rendition of judgment upon special findings of a jury in a workmen’s compensation case. A motion for mistrial was granted, based upon the finding that the jury’s answer to Special Issue No. 6 was in conflict wtih the answers to Special Issues Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 11. This asserted conflict is set forth in the order as being the sole basis for granting a mistrial and refusing plaintiff’s motion for judgment upon…