McWilliams v. Commissioners Court of Pecos County
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Pecos County; W. C. Douglas, Judge. Suit by J. F. McWilliams and others against the Commissioners’ Court of Pecos County and J. M. Odom and others, as individual members thereof, to enjoin the building of a new courthouse and jail. From an order dissolving a restraining order, the plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.
Appellants bring this suit against the commissioners’ court of Pecos county and the individual members thereof, John M. Odom, county judge, Mart Adams, R. W. Mussey, J. M. Holmes, and Tom Cope, commissioners, in substance alleging that plaintiffs were resident, property-owning, and tax-paying citizens of Pecos county; that the county had a first-class, commodious courthouse, built of stone, situate in the town of Ft. Stockton, in all respects ample and sufficient for the needs of the county and the business of the officers and courts of the county; that said courthouse is situate in what is…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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