in Re DeRuiter Ranch, LLC

NUMBER 13-21-00001-CV COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG IN RE DERUITER RANCH, LLC

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus. ORDER

Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Hinojosa and Silva

Order Per Curiam On January 4, 2021, relator DeRuiter Ranch, LLC (DeRuiter) filed a petition for writ of mandamus through which it asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in preventing DeRuiter from obtaining discovery pertaining to “public use” in a statutory condemnation proceeding. See TEX. UTIL. CODE ANN. § 181.004 (“A gas or electric corporation has the right and power to enter on, condemn, and appropriate the land, right- of-way, easement, or other property of any person or corporation.”); TEX. CONST. art. I, §17(a) (“No person's property shall be taken, damaged, or destroyed for or applied to public use without adequate compensation being made . . . .”).

The Court requests that the real party in interest, Permian Highway Pipeline LLC, or any others whose interest would be directly affected by the relief sought, file a response to the petition for writ of mandamus on or before the expiration of ten days from the date of this order. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.2, 52.4, 52.8.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

PER CURIAM Delivered and filed the 6th day of January, 2021.