WW Rodgers and Sons Produce Co. v. Johnson

WHITHAM, Justice.

Relators, W.W. Rodgers and Sons Produce Company and W.W. Rodgers and Sons Trucks, Inc., seek mandamus against respondent, the Honorable H. Dee Johnson, judge of the 44th Judicial District Court of Dallas County, Texas, ordering Judge Johnson to permit certain discovery. We grant leave to file the petition for writ of mandamus. Upon consideration of the petition, we conclude that the trial court correctly refused to permit the discovery. Accordingly, we deny the writ of mandamus.

Before June 19, 1983, the Supreme Court had unrestricted power to issue writs of mandamus…