Thompson v. State of Texas
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before Hon. Tom C. Davis.
1Opinion of the Court
GARRETT, Chief Justice.
The State of Texas, upon the relation of the district attorney in and for the Second Judicial District, filed an information in the nature of a quo warranta against the appellants to oust them from the offices of mayor, aldermen, and city marshal of the town of Jacksonville, in Cherokee County, and to have the incorporation of said town declared null -and void. A trial was had before the court, without a jury, and judgment of ouster was rendered as prayed for.
The town of Jacksonville was incorporated by a special act of the Thirteenth Legislature, passed May 7, 1873,…
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