Robinson Watson v. Wingate, County Judge

This action was brought by appellants as retail liquor dealers and qualified voters in Orange County against W. J. Wingate, judge, and the several members of the commissioners court to cancel and annul a local option election held in Orange County in May, 1903, and to enjoin them from canvassing the election returns and publishing the result.

On May 31, 1903, the petition was presented to the judge of an adjoining district, who granted the preliminary injunction as prayed for and ordered that it remain in force until the litigation was finally determined.

Defendants presented general demurrers…