Union Carbide Corp. v. Moye

OPINION

SPEARS, Justice.

This mandamus proceeding arises out of a suit in which over two thousand plaintiffs are alleging harm from exposure to toxic chemicals around the Lone Star Steel plant in Morris County. Relators here are Union Carbide Corporation and most of the four hundred defendants in the underlying suit (hereinafter referred to as Union Carbide). Union Carbide filed in the trial court a motion to transfer venue on the ground that an impartial trial could not be had in Morris County. See Tex.R.Civ.P. 257. The trial judge conducted a hearing based on a written record only and refused…