White v. Maverick County Water Control & Improvement Dist. No. 1

This case is one in which plaintiffs in error sought to enjoin certain condemnation proceedings commenced by the defendant in error, and its board of commissioners of ap-praisement, and the taking possession of their lands thereunder, it being alleged that the proceedings by which such lands were sought to be condemned were void because the statute (section 14, Chap. 280, Laws of the 41st Leg., p. 578 [Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 7880 — ■ 132]) by which they were authorized was unconstitutional. The injunction prayed for was denied by the district court. An appeal was duly prosecuted to the…