Lowe v. Commissioners' Court of Val Verde County

MURRAY, Justice.

H. J. Lowe and six other resident citizens of Val Verde county, who are the appellants herein, petitioned Hon. Brian Montague, judge of the Sixty-Third judicial district of Texas, which district includes Val Verde county, for a temporary injunction to restrain the commissioners’ court of Val Verde county from expending county funds in the purchase of certain lands to be used as a part of the right of way of state highway No. 3.

The right of the commissioners’ court to so expend funds of the county is found in the provisions of chapter 79, Acts of the 41st Legislature, Fifth…