Boynton v. Brown

This is an application by appellant for a mandamus to compel Clinton G. Brown, mayor, and Jack W. Neal, George W. Saunders, F. A. Chapa, John W. Warren, U. H. Rische, Robert F. Uhr, W. L. Hoefgen, J. R. Baldwin, Albert Steves, Sr., J. R. Lambert, C. T. Fincham, and Leo M. J. Diel-mann, aldermen of the city of San Antonio, to order an election submitting the question, “Shall a commission be chosen to frame a new charter,” as required by an act of the Thirty-Third Legislature at its regular session in March, 1913. The petition copies the provision of the law of 1913 (Acts 33d Leg. c. 147),…