State v. Burks

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto to dissolve the corporation of the city of Ballinger. The information was presented to and ordered to be filed by the judge of the District Court of the district in which the county of Runnels was situated. When the cause was reached for hearing, said judge held himself disqualified to sit, because he had been of counsel in the case. The parties then agreed upon a judge, who dismissed the cause because the disqualification of the regular judge existed at the time when he ordered the information to be filed.

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