Holman v. Pabst

Appellants, as the county judge and members of the commissioners' court of Galveston county, appeal from a judgment in mandamus, commanding them in their official capacities "at the next meeting of said Court to order an election as prayed for in said petition (of the appellees, two freeholding tax paying citizens of the county) to be held throughout Galveston County, as soon as the requisite thirty-day notice can be given, for the purpose of determining: (1) Whether hogs, sheep and goats shall be permitted to run at large in said County, as a whole, and (2) whether horses, mules, jacks,…