Townsend v. Terrell

Mr. Judge SPEER,

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

This is an original application for a writ of mandamus to compel the State Comptroller to issue to relator salary warrants as District Attorney for the second judicial district. Relator has been duly elected to the office of district attorney for the second district and is entitled to the writ sought unless the office has been abolished by the Act of the 40th Legislature which we shall immediately notice.

By an act approved March 22, 1927, the 40th Legislature passed the following bill:

“Section 1. The office of…