Messer v. Cross

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Appellants, who are all residents of Troupe independent school district No. 2 of Smith County, brought this suit in the District Court of said county against G. W. Cross, county judge, and N. A. Gentry, county attorney of said county, to contest the result of a local option election held in' said school district on the 5th' day of June, 1900, and have same set aside and-to enjoin said county judge from publishing the declared result of said election. The grounds for contesting said election as set out in the petition are as follows:

“1. That the town of Troupe,…