City of Gladewater v. State

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commis-, sion of Appeals, Section A.

This proceeding is in the nature of a quo warranto brought by the State of Texas by and through Oscar B. Jones, Criminal District Attorney of Gregg County, upon the relation of Mrs. E. L. Walker, a feme sole, W. H. York and Leland Dikes against the City of Gladewater, a municipal corporation organized under the general laws of Texas. The relief sought was a decree adjudging that the acts of the City in attempting to annex certain land belonging to the relators to the City were arbitrary, illegal and void, and an…