Lasater v. Lopez
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Jim Wells County; V. W. Taylor, Judge. Suit by Ed. C. Lasater and other taxpayers of Duval County against Alonzo Lopez, county treasurer, and others, to have a road contract declared void and warrants canceled and their payment enjoined. Austin Bros., a corporation, intervened. Judgment for defendants, and intervener and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
This suit was instituted on December 18, 1916, by Ed. C. Lasater and seven other taxpayers of Duval county against the county treasurer, Alonzo Lopez, A. W. Tobin, the county judge, G. A. Parr, the county commissioners then in office, and Marshall White. By amendment, the successors of said county commissioners were made parties. The object of the suit was to have declared void a certain road contract of Duval county with Marshall White, and to procure the cancellation of all warrants issued by the county in payment for work done under said contract, and in the alternative that said warrants…
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