Polly v. Hopkins
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hemphill. Tried below before Hon. Frank Willis. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by appellees, a number of tax payers in Hemphill County, against E. E. Polly and S. H. Pickens.
There are no other parties defendant.
The petition alleges that Polly is the county judge of Hemphill County, and that some time in June, 1888, “he signed, executed, and delivered to one S. N. Pickens, one of the defendants herein, a certain written contract * * * stipulating for the construction of a county jail at Canadian, the county seat of said county, to cost thirteen thousand dollars, *146to be paid for by said county by the issuance and delivery to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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