Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (12/18/08)
12/18/2008
The judge entertained a tenant's ex parte complaint about the landlord's termination of water service to the property; called the landlord by telephone and ordered him to restore water service to the rental property before the eviction hearing took place; and penalized the landlord for terminating water service to the property by refusing to award the landlord past-due rent. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (12/18/08)
