King v. Jones

ACKER, Presiding Judge.

During the months of November and December, 1884, W. B. King was in Hardeman County surveying for a railway company. At the election on the 3rd day of December of that year he was a candidate for the office of surveyor of that county, but was defeated, and soon thereafter he returned to Fort Worth, where he had a home and where his family resided, he being a married man and owning a house and lot in which his family resided at Fort Worth. He was elected city engineer of the city of Fort Worth in April, 1885, and was holding that office at the time of the trial.

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