Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Rose v. City of La Porte
Texas Supreme Court
Decided January 6, 1965No. A-10162PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Justice.
This is an action in the nature of a quo warranto originally brought by the State of Texas, upon the relation of three individual relators against the City of La Porte, challenging the constitutionality of the Home-Rule Charter of the City of La Porte and the validity of certain annexation ordinances enacted under authority of the claimed void “Home-Rule Charter.”
The petitioners shall hereinafter be designated as the State, and the respondent as La Porte.
The original petition was filed after the County Judge of Harris County, Texas, had declined to order an election to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Trimmier v. CarltonTexas Supreme Court · 1927
- Forwood v. City of TaylorTexas Supreme Court · 1948
- Williams v. CastlemanTexas Supreme Court · 1922
- Texas-Louisiana Power Co. v. City of FarmersvilleTexas Commission of Appeals · 1933
- Lower Nueces River Water Supply District v. CartwrightCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1954
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3Cited by48 opinions
- City of Clute v. City of Lake JacksonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1977
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- Burch v. City of San AntonioTexas Supreme Court · 1975
- Moore v. Edna Hospital DistrictCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1969
- State Ex Rel. City of Colleyville v. City of HurstCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1975
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