State Ex Rel. Armstrong v. City of Gladewater

HALL, Chief Justice.

This is a quo warranto proceeding filed July 27, 1950, by the State of Texas, acting through the District Attorney of Gregg County, upon the relation of Tom Armstrong against the City of Gladewater, a municipal corporation. It was alleged by the State of Texas in said proceeding that appellee, the City of Gladewater, had purported to annex to its city limits an area one-half mile in width under the provisions of Arts. 965 and 974, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., and in attempting to add said half-mile strip the city acted in an arbitrary illegal manner. It is alleged further that…