Giles v. City of Houston

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment in mandamus, on an application of the appellees as mayor and commissioners of the city of Houston, requiring the appellant as controller of the city- — as in compliance with article II, section 19, of the charter of that city — to countersign a contract otherwise duly made between the city and the Municipal Street Sign Company, Inc., for the furnishing and delivering by the latter to the former of 1250 Type 4-X street name plates or signs; all matters of fact as well as of law had been submitted to the court for determination without a jury, and,…