                              NUMBER 13-08-00532-CV

                              COURT OF APPEALS

                    THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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        IN RE: HIDALGO COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT AND
     HIDALGO COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT REVIEW BOARD
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               On Petition for Writ of Mandamus and
                    Motion for Emergency Relief
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

                     Before Justices Yañez, Garza, and Vela
                       Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

         Relators, Hidalgo County Appraisal District and Hidalgo County Appraisal District

Review Board, filed a petition for writ of mandamus on September 10, 2008. The Court

ordered the real parties in interest, El Pistalon, L.L.P., Ramon Garcia, O G Construction

Co., L.L.P., The Blue Group, Ltd., Co., and South Texas Wildhorse Desert Investments,

Inc., to file a response to relators’ petition for writ of mandamus. Such response was duly

filed.
       The parties have now filed a joint motion to dismiss the petition for writ of

mandamus and motion for emergency stay. The Court, having examined and fully

considered the joint motion to dismiss, is of the opinion that said motion should be granted.

Accordingly, the motion to dismiss is GRANTED and this original proceeding is hereby

DISMISSED without reference to the merits.


                                                         PER CURIAM

Memorandum Opinion delivered and
filed this the 22nd day of January, 2009.




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