Texas Public Utilities Corp. v. Holland

SPEER, Justice.

This is an appeal from an election contest. Texas Public Utilities Corporation and B. F. Cherry, a resident citizen, property owner and tax payer of the City of Weatherford, Texas, hereinafter referred to as contestants, instituted this suit against G. A. Holland, the mayor of the City of Weatherford, Texas, Frank Fulgham, as county attorney of Parker County, Texas, Lawrence Edwards and Conrad F. Russell, Commissioners of the City of Weath-erford, each in their representative capacities and not individually, to whom we shall refer as contestees. Before the cause was heard,…