Alvarez v. Brasch

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

Relator, Pedro Alvarez, seeks a writ of mandamus against the Honorable Jane Akin Brasch, Judge of the 103rd District Court of Cameron County, ordering her to hold a new trial. We conditionally grant the writ.

Relator brought a worker’s compensation suit against Farmland Mutual Insurance Company. Pursuant to the jury’s verdict, the trial court entered a take-nothing judgment. Relator timely filed a motion for new trial, contending that the jurors had misanswered one of the special issues due to a clerical error. He attached affidavits of eleven jurors in support. The…