City of Oak Cliff v. State Ex Rel. Gill
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. The State, on the relation of Gill, sued the city of Oak Cliff and had judgment, from which defendant appealed, and upon affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BBOWH, Associate Justice.
From the opinion of the honorable Court of Civil Appeals we extract the following pleadings in this case: “On July 1, 1903, appellee filed in the District Court of the Forty-fourth Judicial District of the State of Texas, its information in the nature of a quo warranto on the relation of C. A. Gill individually, and as acting mayor of the city of Dallas, against the city of Oak Cliff and the various officers thereof, and against the trustees of the independent school district of Oak Cliff, seeking a judicial determination to the effect that the said city of ■ Oak…
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