City of Port Arthur v. Tillman

FANNING, Justice.

Plaintiff, City of Port Arthur, as successor and subrogated to the rights of Jefferson County Water Control and Improvement District No. 11, brought suit against defendants, Harrell G. Tillman and wife, D. D. Tillman, Mack Hannah, Jr., Hamilton Paul, Emily Bridges, Isaac Prejean, Frank Boutte, and American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, alleging to the effect that the defendants Hannah, Paul, Bridges, Prejean and Boutte as directors of Jeffer*139son County Water Control District No. 11 had violated and breached various of their statutory duties as trustees and…