City of Corsicana v. Babb

W. A. Babb and L. A. Pinkston, as plaintiffs below, filed this suit in the district court of Navarro county, Tex., on April 16, 1924, and presented their petition to the district judge and obtained a temporary writ of injunction against the city, restraining it from paying an attorney’s fee contracted to be paid by it to J. S. Callicutt in the sum of $750, and from paying Richard Mays an attorney’s fee of $500, for appearing in certain criminal litigation then pending in the district court of Navarro county, Tex.

In substance, the petition alleged that ap-pellees were taxpayers in the city of…