in Re Omni Hotels Management Corporation and Omni Hotels Franchising Company, L.L.C.

in re omni 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. ------------ FROM PROBATE COURT NO. ONE OF TARRANT COUNTY ------------ MEMORANDUM OPINION (footnote: 1) AND JUDGMENT ------------ 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.