Brown v. Reese

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was originally instituted in the district court of Leon county by a petition for a mandamus to compel appellants as members of the commissioners court of that county to cause a warrant to issue in favor of appellee for the payment of a school voucher issued to him in 1874 by the then superintendent of public schools of the county.

It was alleged that the claim was audited and allowed by the • commissioners court of Leon county, on the thirteenth day of *319August, 1883, by virtue of the Act of April 2, 1883. (Laws 18th Leg., p. 41.) Judgment was rendered in the…