Sandsend Financial Consultants, Ltd. v. Wood

OPINION

COHEN, Justice.

Relator, Sandsend Financial Consultants, Ltd., asks this Court for leave to file a petition for writ of mandamus ordering the respondent to employ the discovery procedures found in the Hague Evidence Convention. Multilateral Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, opened for signature March 18, 1970, 23 U.S.T. 2555, T.I.A.S. No. 7444, 28 U.S.C. § 1781 note.

Relator is a defendant in the underlying lawsuit styled Continental Savings Association v. Adkinson, which was filed on June 28, 1987. On August 3, 1987, relator filed a special…