Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2014-09-02 07:11:24.475751+00
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NUMBER 13-14-00469-CV

                                 COURT OF APPEALS

                     THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                        CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

            IN RE STATE FARM LLOYDS, RICHARD FREYMANN,
            CLIFF COPPEDGE, LARRY FAULKS, DELLA OAKLEY,
                     AND ERIC RECHARD JACKSON

                           On Petition for Writ of Mandamus.

                             MEMORANDUM OPINION
      Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Perkes and Longoria
                   Memorandum Opinion1 Per Curiam

        Relators, State Farm Lloyds, Richard Freymann, Cliff Coppedge, Larry Faulks,

Della Oakley, and Eric Rechard Jackson, have filed a petition for writ of mandamus

requesting that this Court direct respondent, the Honorable Rose Guerra Reyna,

Presiding Judge of the 206th District Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, to withdraw her

order denying relators’ verified plea in abatement and to enter an order abating the suit

        1 See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(d) (“When denying relief, the court may hand down an opinion but is not
required to do so.”); TEX. R. APP. P. 47.4 (distinguishing opinions and memorandum opinions).
for damages brought against relators by the real parties in interest, Leonardo Fuentes

and Alma Fuentes, until sixty days after they provide relators with a notice letter for their

claim stating the specific, separate amounts for the claimed damages and attorney’s fees.

See TEX. INS. CODE ANN. § 541.154 (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d C.S.) (“Prior Notice

of Action”); id. § 541.155 (West, Westlaw through 2013 3d C.S.) (“Abatement”); TEX. R.

APP. P. 52.1 (“Commencement” of Original Proceedings). In addition, relators request

that this Court issue immediate temporary relief staying respondent’s order denying the

plea in abatement. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.10 (“Temporary Relief”).

          The Court, having examined and fully considered the petition for writ of mandamus

and the applicable law, is of the opinion that the petition for writ of mandamus should be

denied for the reasons expressed in our opinion in In re State Farm Lloyds, Richard

Freymann, and Nathan Burris, No. 13-14-00347-CV, 2014 WL _____ (Tex. App.—Corpus

Christi     Aug.    27,    2014,    orig.   proceeding)    (mem.     op.),    available   at

http://www.search.txcourts.gov/case.aspx?cn=13-14-00348-CV. Accordingly, the Court

DENIES the petition for writ of mandamus and request for immediate temporary relief.

See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(d).

                                                          PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
2nd day of September, 2014.

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