Opinion
NUMBER 13-19-00070-CV
02-14-2019
CITY OF PORT ISABEL, Appellant, v. EDWARD MEZA, Appellee.
On appeal from the 444th District Court of Cameron County, Texas.
ORDER
Before Justices Benavides, Longoria, and Hinojosa
Order Per Curiam
Appellant, City of Port Isabel, has filed a notice of accelerated appeal and a motion to stay in this case. Appellant has appealed a February 12, 2019 order denying its plea to the jurisdiction. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a)(8) (West, Westlaw through 2017 1st C.S.). Appellant requests that we stay the underlying trial court proceedings in cause number 2017 DCL-01295-H because it "does not want to unnecessarily expend time effort, and money defending this action and conducting discovery pending appeal, when the Court may find that there is no jurisdiction" over the claims against it filed by appellee, Edward Meza. See id.; id. § 51.014(b); TEX. R. APP. P. 29.1, 29.3, 29.5.
The Court, having examined and fully considered the matters on file herein, is of the opinion that appellant is entitled to a stay of the trial court proceedings. Accordingly, we GRANT appellant's motion to stay and we order the trial court proceedings stayed pending resolution of this appeal or further order of this Court.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
PER CURIAM Delivered and filed the 14th day of February, 2019.