COURT OF APPEALS

SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

FORT WORTH

NO. 2-03-365-CV

IN RE OMNI HOTELS MANAGEMENT

CORPORATION AND

OMNI HOTELS FRANCHISING

COMPANY, L.L.C.

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FROM PROBATE COURT NO. ONE OF TARRANT COUNTY

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MEMORANDUM OPINION ^{(footnote: 1)} AND JUDGMENT

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Relators filed an emergency motion to stay certain proceedings in the trial court. ^{(footnote: 2)}  They did not file a petition seeking extraordinary relief, ^{(footnote: 3)} although they claim in the motion that they will file a petition for mandamus later.  An appellate court cannot grant temporary relief under rule 52.10 unless an original proceeding has first been filed. ^{(footnote: 4)}  Implicit in rule 52.10 is the necessity for a petition to be filed before our court can grant emergency relief. ^{(footnote: 5)}  At this point, there is no controversy before this court. ^{(footnote: 6)}

We therefore dismiss Relators’ emergency motion for want of jurisdiction without prejudice to refiling it if and when an original proceeding is actually commenced. ^{(footnote: 7)}

PER CURIAM

PANEL B: DAUPHINOT and HOLMAN, JJ.

DELIVERED:  December 18, 2003

FOOTNOTES

1:

See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

2:

See Tex. R. App. P. 52.10.

3:

See Tex. R. App. P. 52.1.

4:

In re Ramirez , No. 13-03-00119-CV, 2003 WL 898751, at *1 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi Feb. 27, 2003, orig. proceeding); In re Kelleher , 999 S.W.2d 51, 52 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 1999, orig. proceeding); see Tex. R. App. P. 52.1, 52.10.

5:

Ramirez , 2003 WL 898751, at *1; see Tex. R. App. P. 52.10.

6:

See Kelleher , 999 S.W.2d at 52.

7:

See Ramirez , 2003 WL 898751, at *1, Kelleher , 999 S.W.2d at 52.