Harrell v. Lynch
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bowie. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. This proceeding was a bill for an injunction filed by appellees to restrain the appellants, who were the county officers of Bowie county, from removing their offices and archives, records, books, papers, etc., from Boston, Bowie county, Texas, to Texarkana, in that county, which the bill alleged they were unlawfully about to do in consequence of, and in obedience to, an order of Jno.
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Appeal from Bowie. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. This proceeding was a bill for an injunction filed by appellees to restrain the appellants, who were the county officers of Bowie county, from removing their offices and archives, records, books, papers, etc., from Boston, Bowie county, Texas, to Texarkana, in that county, which the bill alleged they were unlawfully about to do in consequence of, and in obedience to, an order of Jno. J. Bell, county judge of Bowie county, by him entered on the records of the commissioners’ court, adjudging and ordering “that the county seat of Bowie…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
It was claimed by the appellees in the court below that the removal of the county seat of Bowie county from Boston to Texarkana was not effected by the election of September 24,1885, on two grounds: first, that illegal votes and fraud produced the majority counted for Texarkana in that election; and second, that the law under which the election was held was unconstitutional and void. Upon the latter ground, without reference to the former, the court below rendered a decree perpetuating upon the petition of appellees an injunction restraining appellants, the county…
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