Rouff v. Boyd
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the CourtPleasants, C. J.
This is a suit brought for mandamus by Melvin Rouff, Joseph F. Meyer, Jr., -and May Bering Fox Woods, independent executors of the will of Henry S. Fox, Jr., deceased, to compel respondent, Ewing Boyd, .district judge for the Fifty-Fifth judicial district, to proceed to trial and" judgment in cause No. 125430 on the doclret of the Fifty-Fifth judicial district court of Harris county, styled Washington & Lee University v. Melvin Rouff et ah, Executors, in which cause the petitioners herein are the defendants.
The petition for madamus alleges:
“I. That the Washington & Lee University filed suit…
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