Porter v. State

GAINES, Associate Justice.

—This was a suit for a mandamus, brought in the name of the State upon the relation of certain citizens of Taylor County, to compel the appellant, as county judge of that county, to appoint trustees for a certain new school district designated as No. 17. The petition alleged that relators were residents and tax payers of that district, and- that each of them was the parent of children within the scholastic age. It alleged also that district No. 17, together with another numbered 16, had been carved out of the territory originally belonging to district No. 11 by an…