Prowse v. Wilson

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Sam E. Wilson, Jr., and Barton Dunn, property-owning and taxpaying citizens of Nueces County, against Joe D. Browning, County Judge, Horace Caldwell, R. R. Hall, John J. Sabla-tura and W. J. Bryan, County Commissioners, seeking to enjoin the issuance and sale of “Toll Causeway Revenue Bonds” and the construction of a causeway from Flour Bluff to Padre Island in Nueces County.

At a nonjury trial had on February 10, 1947, upon the merits for a permanent injunction, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff granting the perpetual injunction as prayed for,…