Watson v. Cochran

By the Acts of the Legislature of 1913 (Acts 33d Leg. c. 74) appearing in 4 Vernon’s Sayles’ Tex. Civ. Statutes as Title 107A, it was provided that the commissioners’ court of any county in the state '■‘may when they deem it expedient, and shall when petitioned by ten per cent, of the qualified voters of the county or a number of the qualified voters, equal to twenty per'cent, of the qualified voters of any political subdivision” mentioned in the act, order an election to be held to determine whether or not pool halls shall be prohibited in such county or subdivision thereof. The act then…