Browder v. Memphis Independent School District
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh District, in an appeal from Hall County. Browder and others sued the Memphis Independent School District, and obtained writ of error on the affirmance, on their appeal, of a judgment for defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The purpose of the suit, instituted by the plaintiffs in error, was to have annulled an order of the trustees of the Memphis Independent School District for the issuance of bonds in the amount of $40,000 for the benefit of the district, and to obtain a cancellation of the bonds. A previous suit had been filed by the same plaintiffs against the same defendants, on January 20, 1914, in which an injunction was applied for to restrain the sale of the bonds. Its trial was entered upon at the regular term of the court, but the plaintiffs took a non-suit. That term of the court adjourned on January…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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