Legal Opinion
Richie v. Heard
Texas Supreme Court
Decided February 11, 1981No. B-9914PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREENHILL, Chief Justice.
This is an original mandamus in this Court. Its purpose is to require Judge Wyatt Heard of Harris County to vacate an order which reinstated a case on the docket. The mandamus will be conditionally granted because Judge Heard’s order of reinstatement came too late under Rule 165a, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.
The suit was filed by Mr. and Mrs. Alison Bunch in 1975. Under the rules of the Harris County district courts, cases of a certain age are set for dismissal for want of prosecution; and they are dismissed unless reasons are shown why they should not be…
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