City of Seven Points v. Anderson

OPINION ON REMAND

COLLEY, Justice.

This is a remand1 from an appeal2 from a writ of mandamus in district court in Henderson County. In 1988, a group of Seven Points citizens (petitioners) gathered approximately 207 signatures on a petition to call an election to disincorporate the City. The mayor, after appointing a committee to advise him, determined that there were 358 qualified voters in Seven Points *520and only 176 “legal names” on the petition. The mayor concluded the petition did not contain signatures of over two-thirds of the qualified voters of Seven Points and accordingly, refused to…