Legal Opinion
Dewitt and Rearick v. Ferguson
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided November 6, 1985No. 08-85-00234-CVPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OSBORN, Justice.
The Relators have filed a petition for writ of mandamus seeking to compel discovery concerning the basis upon which a prior suit was settled. We conditionally grant the writ.
FACTS
Three sisters, Patsy Nell Ramsey, Billy Grace Cawley and Shirley Ann Brown, in 1981 offered for sale three tracts of land in El Paso’s upper valley which they had inherited and owned as tenants in common. In 1983, two groups were interested in purchasing the sisters’ land. Walter Passero and Patrick Wieland presented a real estate contract which Mrs. Ramsey signed, and Mrs. Brown also signed…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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