Cockburn v. Hightower

Mr. Judge SHORT

of the Commission of Appeals delivered the opinion for the court.

The relators, H. C. Cockburn and C. E. Gates, have filed a motion asking leave to file an application for a writ of mandamus to issue to the members of the Court of Civil Appeals of the Ninth District and to the clerk thereof, as well as a writ of prohibition prohibiting them from taking any action in a certain cause on the docket of said court, pending a determination of the proceedings for the issuance for the writ of mandamus.

There was a consolidation of two suits tried in one of the district courts of Harris…