Blessing v. City of Galveston
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. A. P. McCormick. On the 23d September, 1871, Solomon T. Blessing, Theodore B. Stubbs, F. W. Bartlett, Joseph Seitz, William B. Sorley, and John W. Wicks and James H. Trezevant, the two persons last named being partners under the firm-name of Wicks & Trezevant, filed in the District Court of Galveston ■county, their petition in behalf of themselves and all others of like interest, who might desire to become parties, in order…
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Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. A. P. McCormick. On the 23d September, 1871, Solomon T. Blessing, Theodore B. Stubbs, F. W. Bartlett, Joseph Seitz, William B. Sorley, and John W. Wicks and James H. Trezevant, the two persons last named being partners under the firm-name of Wicks & Trezevant, filed in the District Court of Galveston ■county, their petition in behalf of themselves and all others of like interest, who might desire to become parties, in order to .avoid a multiplicity of suits, and in their petition alleged, in substance, that the Act of 16th May, 1871,…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This suit was brought by appellant, Blessing, and some six or seven others on their own behalf, and on behalf of all others having a like and common interest, who might make themselves parties, to enjoin and restrain appellant from proceeding in prosecutions alleged to have been commenced by warrants issued by John S. Rhea, claiming to be acting as recorder, under pretense of authority alleged to have been conferred on him by "an Act of the Legislature, incorporating the city of Galveston, on which warrants petitioners allege some of them were threatened with arrest, and others' of them had…
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