Minor v. Loggins

FINLEY, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Ellis County, Texas, by J. R. Minor, plaintiff, against J. C. Loggins, E. J. Kendall and J. W. Dunkerly, who are alleged to be the mayor, city secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the city of Ennis, a municipal corporation organized under the general laws of Texas. The object of the suit was a peremptory mandamus to compel the mayor to sign, the secretary to seal, and the treasurer to pay a certain warrant for §598.20, which had been ordered to be issued to plaintiff by the city council of Ennis. Upon the trial…