City of El Paso v. Tuck

This is an appeal by the City of El Paso from a judgment of the 4.1st District Court of El Paso County, holding that appellees Mrs. John E. Tuck et al. were entitled to have an election called to decide whether or not the inhabitants of an area adjacent to the City of El Paso wished to incorporate the said area into a city; that a petition filed for that purpose — alleged by appellants to have been abandoned — on March 19, 1953, was in sufficient force and effect so as to give appellees priority of jurisdiction over the areas. The trial court denied appellees’ petition for mandamus to compel…