Neptune v. Renfro

O’QUINN, Justice.

Millard K. Neptune, as a resident and taxpayer of Travis County, brought this lawsuit against the county judge and members of the Commissioners Court, the county treasurer, and the county auditor, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the officials from putting into effect salary raises for the judge and the commissioners, as well as eighteen other elective county officials, approved by the Commissioners Court on July 31, 1978.

After hearing in district court without aid of a jury, the trial court entered judgment that Plaintiff Neptune take nothing by this lawsuit. The…