Trueheart v. Addicks
Texas Supreme Court
This was an application by tbe appellee to the district court of Bexar county for a peremptory mandamus to the appellant to compel him to restore the office, books, papers and records of, and belonging to, the clerk’s office of the county court of said county, of which it was alleged he had been illegally deprived, and which were then held by the appellant.
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This was an application by tbe appellee to the district court of Bexar county for a peremptory mandamus to the appellant to compel him to restore the office, books, papers and records of, and belonging to, the clerk’s office of the county court of said county, of which it was alleged he had been illegally deprived, and which were then held by the appellant. The application was founded on a controversy and dispute which grew out of an election for clerk of the county court, and was resorted to by the parties to determine their respective rights by a judicial decision. The material facts…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice "Wheeleb
delivered the opinion of the court.
*220By the agreement of the parties, this cause was referred to the opinion of the judge of the second judicial district,, whose decision was in favor of the plaintiff below, and at the fall term, 1846, was made the judgment of the court; from, which the defendant appealed.
In the opinion of the judge, which accompanies the record, is presented a clear and succinct statement of the material facts, as follows:
“ It appears that the plaintiff and defendant were opposing candidates at the election of the 13th of July last (1846) for the office of…
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