Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Bass
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided May 19, 1983No. 01-82-802-CVPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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LEVY, Justice.
This is an appeal from a dismissal for lack of jurisdiction in a suit for mandamus.
Appellants, in their individual capacities as citizens and taxpayers of Harris County, Texas, and as litigants in the Courts of Harris County, Texas, brought this suit for mandamus, complaining of the backlog of cases on the civil dockets of Harris County. Appellants contend that this backlog of cases creates an intolerable delay for the trial of their own causes of action, thereby depriving them, for all practical purposes, of their right to have remedy by due course of law. Tex.Const.…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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