Deaver v. State Ex Rel. Tripp

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

This is a proceeding in the nature of quo warranta, instituted July 22, 1901, by the county attorney, by leave of the district judge, in the name of the State of Texas, by W. F. Tripp, as relator, to remove J. H. Deaver from the office of trustee of public school district No. 9, Taylor County, for the reason that the persons who held the election, I. S. Thurmond, D. A. Shaw, and J. F. Robinson, were not appointed by the commissioners court, nor selected by the voters present at the election; that they were not sworn; nor was their return of the election made to the…