Hainsworth v. HARRIS COUNTY COM'RS COURT
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
GRAVES, Justice.
This appeal by the appellant, a colored man, is from.a judgment of the 129th District- Court of Harris County, Texas, Hon. Dan W. Jackson, Judge, presiding without a jury, denying the appellant, who was the sole plaintiff below, a writ of mandamus requiring the appellees, who constituted the Commissioners’ Court of Harris County, Texas, and were defendants below “to remove the sign, designated ‘Colored,’ from the table in the Harris County Law Library, and to stop the arbitrary practice of restricting use of tables in the Harris County Courthouse Law Library, on the basis of…
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