Kimbrough v. Barnett

BROWU, Associate Justice.

The Court of Civil Appeals for the First Supreme Judicial District has certified to this court the following statement and questions:

“Upon August 21, 1899, W. W. Barnett brought suit in the District Court of Harris County for the Fifty-fifth Judicial District against W. H. Kimbrough for the office or position of superintendent of the public schools of the city of Houston. Barnett recovered judgment October 2, 1899, for the office and its emoluments, and Kimbrough has appealed.

“The contest arose out of the construction of an act of the Twenty-sixth Legislature…