Court Opinion

ID: 9890053
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Date Created: 2023-10-12 07:10:47.477606+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:50:02.232173
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COURT OF APPEALS
                                   EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                        EL PASO, TEXAS

    IN RE: JAMES E. WHITE, IV, Individually            §                 No. 08-23-00247-CV
    and as a named Beneficiary of the JANE
    WHITE TRUST; MARTI WHITE WRIGHT,                   §           AN ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
    Individually and as a named Beneficiary of the
    JANE WHITE TRUST; AND CLINTON                      §                   IN MANDAMUS
    WESLEY WHITE, Individually and as a
    named Beneficiary of the JANE WHITE                §
    TRUST, by and Through his Next-Friend,
    JAMES E. WHITE, IV,                                §

                                          Relators.

                                     MEMORANDUM OPINION

          Before the Court is relators’ petition for writ of mandamus. In the petition, relators ask this

Court to void both the final judgment and order appointing a temporary interim trustee in the

underlying case. 1

          Relators must meet two requirements to demonstrate they are entitled to relief by

mandamus. In re Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 148 S.W.3d 124, 135 (Tex. 2004) (orig. proceeding).

1
 Relators have also separately appealed these judgments in No. 08-23-00243-CV (final judgment) and No. 08-23-
00244-CV (appointment of trustee).
They must show that first, the trial court clearly abused its discretion, and second, they have no

adequate remedy by appeal. Id. at 135–36.

       Relators have not attempted to show they have no adequate remedy by appeal.

Accordingly, relators have not established they are entitled to mandamus relief. We deny relators’

petition for writ of mandamus. Relators’ motion for emergency relief is likewise denied as moot.

                                             YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, Chief Justice

October 9, 2023

Before Rodriguez, C.J., Soto, J., and Marion, C.J. (Ret.)
Marion, C.J. (Ret.) (Sitting by Assignment)

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