Smith v. Cathey

Appellant filed an application for a writ of injunction against the commissioners of Wood county, seeking to restrain said commissioners’ court from paying out of the Wood county fund a certain sum for connecting a certain piece of the Jim Hogg highway in the town of Winns-boro, incorporated, within said county. The writ was denied, and the judge set the motion down for hearing at the next term of court in said county, and this appeal was taken.

The petition alleged, among other things, as follows:

“That relator is a citizen and taxpayer of Wood county; that respondents, the county judge and…