Hale v. Mann

Plaintiffs sue certain officers of the state to restrain the enforcement so far as plaintiffs are concerned of the Texas Securities Act passed by the Forty-Fourth Legislature (1935) c. 100 (Vernon’s Ann. Civ.St.Tex. art. 600a, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. Tex. art. 1083a). Plaintiffs attempted to implead the defendant Stanford, who has succeeded Mann as Secretary of State, by supplemental bill, but it was admitted on the trial that he was not properly before the court, and the case proceeded as against the other defendants only.

At the outset the defendants challenge the jurisdiction of the court on the…