In Re Gibraltar Finance & Mortgage, Inc. v. the State of Texas

Opinion issued December 9, 2025

In The

Court of Appeals
For The

First District of Texas
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NO. 01-25-00976-CV
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IN RE GIBRALTAR FINANCE & MORTGAGE, INC., Relator

Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

MEMORANDUM OPINION
Relator, Gibraltar Finance & Mortgage, Inc., filed a petition for writ of

mandamus challenging the trial court’s July 26, 2025 “Order Granting Bill of

Review.”1 Relator alleged that the trial court abused its discretion by granting the

bill of review filed by real party in interest, DB Webster, Ltd., “before . . . relator

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The underlying case is Gibraltar Finance & Mortgage, Inc. v. DB Webster, Ltd.,
Cause No. 2023-00648, in the 333rd District Court of Harris County, Texas, the
Honorable Tracy Dwight Good presiding.
was able to fully present its case.”2 Relator’s petition for writ of mandamus

requested that the Court grant its petition and issue a writ of mandamus ordering the

trial court to “vacate [its] order and retry the bill of review case fully.”

We conclude that relator has failed to establish it is entitled to mandamus

relief, and, therefore, the Court denies relator’s petition for writ of mandamus. See

Patrick O’Connor & Assocs., L.P. v. Wang Inv. Networks, Inc., No.

01-12-00615-CV, 2013 WL 1451358, at *1–2 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Apr.

9, 2013, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.) (“[T]he general rule stated by both this Court

and our sister court in Houston is that an interlocutory order granting a bill of review

may not be reviewed by mandamus, but by appeal of the eventual final judgment in

the case.”); In re Moreno, 4 S.W.3d 278, 281 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.]

1999, orig. proceeding) (denying petition for writ of mandamus from trial court order

granting bill of review “[b]ecause relators ha[d] an adequate remedy by appeal of

the eventual final judgment in the underlying case”); see also In re Mayra Isabel

Bustamante, No. 01-25-00898-CV, 2025 WL 3165473, at *1 (Tex. App.—Houston

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Relator also filed a notice of appeal in this Court from the trial court’s July 16, 2025
“Order Granting Bill of Review.” However, after real party in interest moved to
dismiss that appeal because the trial court’s order was not a final judgment or
otherwise appealable order, on October 21, 2025, relator filed a motion to dismiss
that appeal. The Court granted the motion and dismissed the appeal on October 30,
2025. See Gibraltar Fin. & Mortg., Inc. v. DB Webster, Ltd., No. 01-25-00642-CV,
2025 WL 3028893, at *1 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Oct. 30, 2025, no pet.)
(mem. op.).

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[1st Dist.] Nov. 13, 2025, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.). We dismiss any pending

motions as moot.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Guerra, Caughey, and Dokupil.

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