Robinson & Watson v. Wingate
Texas Supreme Court
Application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Orange County. Robinson & Watson, liquor dealers, sued Wingate, county judge, and the members of the Commissioners Court, to enjoin them from canvasing the votes and giving notice of the result of a local option election in Orange County. Relief was refused and they appealed, whereupon the judgment was affirmed. Appellants then applied for writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
After a very mature and careful ■ consideration of the application, we are of the opinion, for the reasons given in the opinion of Associate Justice Gill, that the Court of Civil Appeals reached the correct conclusion, and that an injunction does not lie to restrain the Commissioners Court from canvassing the returns and publishing the notice of the result of a local option election as required by the statute. The reasons may be summed up in the conclusion that there is in the performance of these statutory duties no invasion, in a legal sense, of the property…
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