Austin v. City of Alice

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Jim Wells County against the City of Alice, a municipal corporation of Jim Wells County, B. O. Goldthorn, individually and as Mayor of the City of Alice, E. G. Lloyd, Jr., and Bruce Ainsworth, individually and as Commissioners of said City, and P. S. Anderson as City Secretary, seeking a mandamus requiring the respondents to cause the names of relators, Sterling Austin, Percy Beck and W. R. Tidwell, to be printed upon the official ballot for the City Election of said City, to be held on April 2, 1946, as candidates for the offices of Mayor and…