Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Abell
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 18, 1981No. B-9939PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARROW, Justice.
Relator, John M. Abell, seeks his release from the custody of the sheriff of Travis County by writ of habeas corpus. Abell has been remanded to the sheriff’s custody by the judge of the 126th District Court of Travis County until he has responded to an interrogatory posed to him by plaintiffs in a pending suit in which Abell is defendant. After Abell had been ordered to answer, he continued to refuse and was held in contempt and ordered to purge himself of contempt by answering the interrogatory. We granted Abell’s application for writ of habe-as corpus and set down the case…
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