Sansom v. Mercer
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
The territorial limits of the city of Alvarado, in Johnson county, are more than a mile in diameter. Appellees and some eighty other persons claiming to be qualified voters of so much of the territory of the city as lies outside of a circle described from its center by a radius of the length of half a mile, in accordance with the act of the Legislature, approved April 14, 1883, presented to appellant as mayor of the corporation a petition that so much of the corporate limits as was not embraced in such circle be declared no longer a part of such city, and that he…
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