State Ex Rel. Dowlen v. Rigsby

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

This was a proceeding in the nature of a quo warranta, instituted by the district attorney by information based on the relation of P. A. Dowlen, against appellee Rigsby, in which it was alleged that the relator was the justice of the peace of precinct Ho. 1 of Jefferson County, and that respondent had intruded himself in the office, and asking that respondent he ousted. The answer of the respondent denied such intrusion, and set up the facts as they were shown by the evidence, and are now stated.

Prior to the generahelection of 1896, the county of Jefferson had been…