in Re: Transamerica Life Insurance Company

Opinion

Order entered October 8, 2018

In The

Court of Appeals

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-18-00747-CV

TRANSAMERICA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant V.

JILLIAN HELMER, Appellee

On Appeal from the 192nd Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. DC-96-06849

No. 05-18-01120-CV

IN RE TRANSAMERICA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Relator

Original Proceeding from the 192nd Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. DC-96-06849

ORDER

Before Justices Lang, Myers, and Whitehill

Before the Court is appellant’s motion to consolidate appeal and original proceeding.

Appellant asks the Court to consolidate its appeal docketed as cause number 05-18-00747-CV with the original proceeding filed September 25, 2018 and docketed as cause number 05-18- 01120-CV in which appellant seeks a writ of mandamus.

We GRANT the motion and ORDER cause number 05-18-01120-CV CONSOLIDATED into cause number 05-18-00747-CV. We DIRECT the Clerk of Court to remove all documents from cause number 05-18-01120-CV and refile them in cause number 05- 18-00747-CV and to treat cause number 05-18-01120-CV as a closed case. We ORDER that all future pleadings be filed in and bear only cause number 05-18-00747-CV.

We request that appellee Jillian Helmer file a response to the petition for writ of mandamus filed by appellant in cause number 05-18-01120-CV. We DIRECT appellee to include in her appellee’s brief in cause number 05-18-00774-CV any response to the petition for writ of mandamus. The consolidated response shall be filed by October 24, 2018.

/s/ DOUGLAS S. LANG

JUSTICE