Duclos v. County of Harris

As a statement of the case we take the following from the original opinion of the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals:

“In 1915 by a statute appearing as Chapter 19, Acts of the First Called Session of the Thirty-fourth Legislature, the Twenty-third Judicial District of Texas was reorganized and the Eightieth Judicial District created. Section 5 of that Act is as follows:

“ 1 Sec. 5. That the clerk of the District Court of Harris County, as that office is now constituted, and his successor in office, shall be the clerk of the District Court of the Eightieth Judicial District of Texas in Harris…