State ex rel. Taylor v. Eidson

GAINES, Associate Justice.

On the 20th day of April, 1889, a petition was presented to the county judge of Hamilton County, praying him to order an election under the Act of April 6, 1881, to determine whether a certain district, embracing the town of Hamilton and fully described in the petition, should be incorporated as a town for the purpose *304only of establishing and maintaining a free school therein. Sayles’ Civ. Stats., art. 541a. The petition purported to be signed by thirty-nine residents of the proposed town. The county judge determined that the petitioners were residents of the…