Court Opinion

ID: 9679646
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:01:23.707821+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:17.454017
License: Public Domain

GONZALEZ, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result only. In my opinion, the majority has written a wholly unnecessary treatise in what is properly a very simple case.
The sole question for our determination is whether the court of appeals abused its discretion in issuing a conditional writ of mandamus against the trial judge. Mandamus will not lie if there exists an adequate remedy by appeal. Abor v. Black, 695 *303S.W.2d 564, 566-67 (Tex.1985). A court of appeals, therefore, abuses its discretion in granting mandamus when there is an adequate remedy by appeal of the incidental rulings of the trial judge. Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals, 700 S.W.2d 916, 917 (Tex.1985). A trial court’s denial of a plea in abatement is subject to the ordinary remedy of appeal. Abor, 695 S.W.2d at 567; Pope v. Ferguson, 445 S.W.2d 950, 954 (Tex.1969). Accordingly, I would hold only that the court of appeals abused its discretion in granting mandamus because National County Mutual has an adequate remedy by appeal.