IN RE: CENTERPOINT ENERGY HOUSTON ELECTRIC (2019)

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

IN RE: CENTERPOINT ENERGY HOUSTON ELECTRIC, LLC, Relator

NO. 01-19-00478-CV

Decided: August 13, 2019

Panel consists of Justices Kelly, Hightower, and Countiss.

Macey Reasoner Stokes, Houston, Ioannis Vasilios Anaipakos, Meghan McElvy, Benjamin Gonsoulin, Houston, for Relator. James C. Dean, Trisha Ross, Houston, for Real Party in Interest.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Relator, Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC, has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus challenging the trial court's order denying relator's plea to the jurisdiction.¹

We deny the petition.

FOOTNOTES

1. The underlying case is Karen Y. Higgins, Individually and as the Independent Administrator of the Estate of Glenn Wood Higgins, Deceased, Megan Higgins, Maxwell Higgins, and Tommy Higgins v. Centerpoint Energy Inc. and Encore Caregivers, Ltd., No. 450,163-401, in the Probate Court No. 4 of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable James Horwitz.

PER CURIAM

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