Holcomb v. Spikes
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Lubbock County; W. R. Spencer, Judge. Suit by S. C. Spikes against C. A. Holcomb and others to establish plaintiff’s right to the office of tax collector. Judgment for the plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHupp, C. J.
C. A. Holcomb was elected
sheriff of Lubbock county November 2, 1920. S. C. Spikes was elected tax collector. The other appellants in this case were county judge and county commissioners of Lubbock county. The issue involved in this case is whether or not at the November election, 1920, Lubbock county had a population of 10,000, as determined by the next preceding census of the United, States. Lubbock county under the 1910 census had a population of .less than 10,000, but under the 1920 census the population is shown as 11,096. The ap-pellee, S. C. Spikes, having noticed in the Dallas News…
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