Legal Opinion
Woolridge v. Folsom
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 31, 1978No. 19491PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GUITTARD, Chief Justice.
The principal question in this case is whether the district court has jurisdiction of a suit by residents of the city of Dallas against the mayor to nullify certain contracts of the city on the ground of a conflict of interest on the part of the mayor. The trial court dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and we affirm.
Plaintiffs base their suit on the following provisions of article 988 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes (Vernon 1963):
No member of the city council, or any other officer of the corporation, shall be directly or indirectly interested in any work, business…
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