Watson v. County Commission of Walker County

(after stating the facts as above).

The appellants’ first contention is that a valid election could not be held to establish precinct 16, as constituted on the date of filing the petition, a stock law district, without first holding an election in the entire territory covered by precinct 16, prior to the creation of the new precinct 37, “repealing” the partial stock law as established by the election in 1915.

There is nothing in the statutes, sections 10208, 10222, Code 1923, providing any method for changing the status of a district from stock law to nonstock law, except by an election called…