Cauthron v. Murphy

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

— This was a suit brought by appellants to contest a stock law election held in a subdivision of Van Zandt County. The trial court sustained the appellees’ plea to the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that appellees had not been served with a notice of appellants’ grounds of contest, and rendered judgment dismissing the cause. To this action of the court the appellants excepted and in open court gave notice of appeal. The appeal was duly perfected.

The first assignment of error reads as follows: “The court erred in finding that the defendants had not been…