Holcombe v. Fowler

Relators, W. H. Holcombe and others, composing the Democratic Executive Committee of Upton County, and J. O. Barfield, have filed a motion for leave to file a petition for mandamus against Hon. C. R. Sutton, Judge of the Eighty-third Judicial District, the Clerk of the District Court of that District, and W. C. Fowler, an interested party.

It appears from the petition that on the 9th of August, 1928, W. C. Fowler filed suit in the District Court of Upton County, in which the relators in this action were made defendants. The purpose of that suit was to obtain a writ of mandamus or mandatory…