State ex rel. Clements v. Humphries
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Mills. Tried below before Hon. W. A. Blackburn. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto filed in the name of the State upon the relation of P. H. Clements, for the purpose of ousting the appellee from the office of the clerk of the County Court of Mills County.
It was alleged and proved that at the general election held in the county named on the 6th of "November, 1888, the relator, the respondent, and one J. A. Price were candidates for the office of county clerk, and that afterwards on the 12th day of the Same month the Commissioners Court of the county, sitting as a returning board; canvassed the…
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