Seay v. Hunt
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. George N. Aldridge. Proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto, filed by the appellant Seay, county attorney of Dallas county, in behalf of the state, on the relation of John Stone, against Zimri Hunt, on the 9th day of May, 1881, to show by what warrant he held and claimed the office of mayor of the city of Dallas.
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Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. George N. Aldridge. Proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto, filed by the appellant Seay, county attorney of Dallas county, in behalf of the state, on the relation of John Stone, against Zimri Hunt, on the 9th day of May, 1881, to show by what warrant he held and claimed the office of mayor of the city of Dallas. The answer of the defendant, to which plaintiff filed a general demurrer, was as follows: 1st. A demurrer and a special answer “That this court ought not to have and exercise any further jurisdiction of this case for this reason:…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Chief Justice.
1. This is an information regularly filed under the act of 1879, regulating proceedings by quo warranto, charging that the defendant Hunt had usurped the office of mayor of the city of Dallas. The *556relator Stone was elected to that office on the first Tuesday in April, 1881, and having received a regular certificate of election, presented himself before the city council on the 18th of April, to be installed as mayor. On that occasion four aldermen, elected also on the first Tuesday in April, were duly installed as such, but, objection being made that Stone did not possess…
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