Moore, Country Judge v. Coffman
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Knox County. Coffman and others obtained injunction against Moore and others restraining them from expending the proceeds of county bonds issued by authority of a vote of the taxpayers at a location other than the one designated in the proposition submitted and voted on. Writ of error was granted by the committee of judges on the affirmance of such judgment by the appellate court.
1Opinion of the Court
Ms. Chief Justice PHILLIPS
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit concerns the use of the proceeds "of bonds issued by Knox County for the building of two bridges across the Brazos River. The petition for the bond election presented by property owners to the Commissioners Court designated the places in the county on the river where it was desired the two bridges should be built,—the “Brock Crossing” and the “Bill Coffman Crossing,” each a well known location. The order of the court for the election and the notice of it likewise designated, as a part of the stated purpose of the proposed…
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