Durrett v. Robinson
Texas Supreme Court
Motion by Durrett and others for leave to file in the Supreme Court a petition for writ of mandamus against Robinson as district judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The petition accompanying the motion asks for the writ to compel the respondent, as district judge, to issue a mandamus to require the Commissioners’ Court to order a local option election, which' writ the respondent, after a hearing, has refused to grant.
Whether or not a case could ever be made in which this court could properly control by mandamus the judgment of a district judge in issuing or refusing such a writ, is a question which we need not decide, for the reason that the petition shows that respondent’s action in this instance was plainly in accordance with law.
The Commissioners’…
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