Headlee v. Fryer
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Freestone County; A. M. Blackmon, Judge. Suit by E. Headlee and others against G. W. Fryer, County Judge, and others as members of the Commissioners’ Court of Freestone County, and others. Interlocutory injunction granted pending further orders, motion to hold defendants in contempt of such order denied, and injunction dissolved; and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRasbury, J.
Appellants, citizens and taxpayers of Freestone county, commenced this suit in the 'court below against the county judge and the other members of the commissioners’ court, the county tax assessor and collector, the treasurer, auditor, and W. A. Myrick and A. B. Ayres, for the purpose of declaring void and unenforceable and to enjoin pendente lite the execution of a contract entered into by the commissioners’ court with W. A. Myrick and A. B. Ayres, by which Myrick. in consideration of $200,000, agreed to construct a courthouse <for the county, and by which Ayres was to act as architect for…
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