City of La Porte v. State ex rel. Rose

PHILLIPS, Justice.

This is a suit to establish whether or not certain ordinances purportedly annexing land by the City of La Porte are valid or whether an ordinance enacted by the City of ILouston purportedly annexing the *896same land was prior in time and annexed the land in question.

The action was brought in a quo war-ranto proceeding originally filed on the relation of W. M. Rose, Dean Johnson and Albert R. Perkins, challenging the validity of annexation proceedings of the City of La Porte as to a certain small area in Harris County. Thereafter the City of Houston was added as a relator, and…