Roper v. Scurlock
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before Hon. William Poindexter.
1Opinion of the Court
BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.
This is a suit instituted by Ward Roper and others, appellants herein, as plaintiffs, against A. C. Scurlock, publisher of the Cleburne Chronicle, and W. D. McKoy, county judge of Johnson County, to enjoin the publication of and carrying into effect of an order of the Commissioners Court of Johnson County declaring the result of a local option election held in said county on the 13th day of September, 1901. The petition set up various grounds attacking the legality of said election and sought to have the election declared null and void. A trial before the court…
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