                                       In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-16-00181-CV
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                        IN RE GARY RAY SANGSTER

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                              Original Proceeding
              410th District Court of Montgomery County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. 12-11-11562-CV
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The relator, Gary Ray Sangster, filed a petition for writ of mandamus to

compel the trial court to rule on motions that Sangster filed in a civil suit. We were

subsequently notified that the motions were set by submission and the case had

been set for a non-jury trial. The real party in interest, Jarrod L. Walker, filed a

response suggesting that the issues raised in the petition for writ of mandamus have

been mooted by the subsequent developments in the trial court. Sangster did not

object to the suggestion of mootness. The petition for writ of mandamus is



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dismissed as moot without reference to the merits of the issues presented in the

petition.

      PETITION DISMISSED.



                                                       PER CURIAM


Submitted on August 10, 2016
Opinion Delivered August 11, 2016

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.




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