Court Opinion

ID: 9764335
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:19:16.778279+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:55.886745
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OSBORN, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of Justice Ward. In doing so, I would note that the trial court’s order sustaining the plea of privilege was entered on October 25, 1983. This Court’s opinion in Graue-Haws, Inc. v. The Honorable Lawrence Fuller, 666 S.W.2d 238 was not issued until January 11, 1984.
The trial court’s order sustaining the plea of privilege is an interlocutory order over which the trial court retains jurisdiction until a final disposition of the case on the merits. In view of this Court’s decision in the Graue-Haws, Inc. case, the trial court may now determine to reconsider its interlocutory order sustaining the plea of privilege of the third-party defendant, American Steel Building Company, Inc., and if the order entered on October 25, 1983, is set aside and a new order entered overruling the plea of privilege and motion to transfer, there would be no need for this Court to entertain a petition for writ of mandamus.