Nueces County v. King

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order which permanently enjoined Nueces County from selling a tract of land at public auction. The injunction was granted because the county ignored those parts of Article 1577 1 which accord certain preference rights to persons adjoining abandoned right-of-way property. The county presents two points as grounds for ignoring the claimed preference rights to purchase and for dissolving the injunction. It urges that (1) Article 1577, as amended by the Fifty-Third Legislature, is partially unconstitutional because the caption of the statute does not…