Adams v. Kelley

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Upon the petition of appellees, in behalf of themselves and 227 other resident citizens of the city of Cleburne, a writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioners Court of Johnson County to order a local option election for said city was awarded by the District Court. Erom that judgment this appeal is taken.

The petition admits that the local option law had been adopted and put in force for the entire county of Johnson in the year 1895, and that a second election for the entire county, held in March, 1897, again resulted in favor of the law. The legal force of. this…