City of Houston v. State Ex Rel West University Place

Mr. Judge Taylor,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

This is a quo warranto suit brought on the relation of the City of West University Place through its elected officers (appearing in both their official and tax-paying capacities) and two taxpaying citizens of the unappropriated territory in question against the City of Houston and its elected officials in which plaintiffis seek to have Houston’s ordinance purporting to annex said territory declared invalid. The trial court instructed a verdict in favor of plaintiffs and against the defendants, nullifying the…