Court Opinion

ID: 4437604
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-09-12 14:14:42.361298+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:53:13.924245
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-19-00284-CV
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                           IN RE ELLOYD JOHNSON

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                          Original Proceeding
               411th District Court of Polk County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. CIV32131
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Pro se relator Elloyd Johnson filed a petition for writ of mandamus, in which

he asks this Court to compel the district clerk to file a document in trial cause number

CIV32131. The trial court dismissed said cause as frivolous, and this Court issued

an opinion dismissing Johnson’s appeal from the trial court’s judgment because

Johnson failed to comply with notices from the Clerk of the Court regarding how to

proceed in forma pauperis. Johnson v. Goss, No. 09-18-00416-CV, 2019 WL
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470093, at *1 (Tex. App.—Beaumont Feb. 7, 2019, no pet.) (mem. op.); see also

Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 14.004 (West 2017).

      The district clerk is not a person against whom we may issue a writ of

mandamus other than to enforce our jurisdiction. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. §

22.221(a), (b) (West Supp. 2018). Johnson has not shown that issuance of a writ

against the district clerk is necessary to enforce our jurisdiction. See id.; see also In

re Pennington, No. 09-08-370-CV, 2008 WL 4425521, at *1 (Tex. App.—Beaumont

Oct. 2, 2008, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.). Relator has not demonstrated that he is

entitled to mandamus relief from this Court. Accordingly, we deny the petition for

writ of mandamus.

      PETITION DENIED.

                                                      PER CURIAM

Submitted on September 11, 2019
Opinion Delivered September 12, 2019

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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