Moncrief v. Tate

STEAKLEY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by a group of individuals “comprising some of those janitorial workers who were discharged by” the Tarrant County officials on December 14, 1976. The defendants are the County Judge, the members of the Commissioners Court, and certain employees of Tarrant County. The relief sought is a declaration that the adoption by the county officials of an independent contractor system as a means of providing custodial services, and the resulting termination of the employment of the janitorial workers, was a nullity, and that the workers be reinstated with back…