Whiteside v. Brown

HUGPIES, Justice.

Two suits were filed in the court below having as their common purpose the invalidation of an amendment to the State Constitution known as the State College Building Program Constitutional Amendment, which amendment, having received a favorable majority of the votes at a special election held August 23, 1947, was proclaimed adopted by the Governor of Texas on September 8, 1947. Vernon’s Ann. St. Const, art. 7, §§ 17, 18. The two suits were consolidated for trial.

Appellants, who brought the two suits, are Clarence Whiteside, S. A. Wells, Homer Maxey, and H. E. Speer, all…