Underwood v. Howard, County Judge

This is an injunction suit instituted in the district court of Childress county, Tex., by the appellant, W. L. Underwood, a resident taxpayer of said county, to enjoin the appellees, W. B. Howard, county judge, J. T. Preston, Wyatt Smith, J. E. Kindle, and L. D. Foreman, county commissioners, and J. J. Albright, county treasurer, respectively, of said county, from complying with the terms and paying the moneys as stipulated in an alleged illegal contract entered into on August 12,1926, by and between the commissioners’ court, as first party, and R. B. De Witt, as second party.

The provisions…