Garza v. Salinas

This is a statutory election contest of the results of the Roma Independent School District trustee election on April 1, 1967. Four trustees were to be elected, and both the “Old Party” and the “New Party” in Starr County entered tickets of four candidates. The four Old Party candidates were certified as winners by the Board of Trustees after the official canvass of the returns, and the four New Party candidates filed this contest. After an extended hearing over a three-week period, involving several hundred challenged ballots, judgment was entered by the trial court declaring contestant,…