Legal Opinion
State v. De Gress
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 28, 1880No. Case No. 4047PublishedCited by 29 opinions
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. The case is stated in the opinion. Separate briefs were filed on the motion to dismiss, accompanied with ably written arguments by several of the counsel. The questions raised on the motion to dismiss being discussed in the final opinion, the propositions of counsel on the motion and on the final hearing have been consolidated for convenience, instead of being published, as written, in separate briefs.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
The nature of this case will sufficiently appear from the following statement, extracted from the brief of counsel for appellant:
“ This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, instituted in the district court of Travis county, Texas, on the 14th day of February, 1880, by E. T. Moore, county attorney of Travis county, Texas, under the act of July 9, 1879 (R. S. Tex., appendix, p. 44), acting of his own accord, and also on the sworn relation of Radcliff Platt, a citizen, voter, property holder and tax payer of the city of Austin, in said county and *395state,…
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