Ryan v. Evans
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. R. R. Gaines. J. R. Ryan and others, plaintiffs in error, petitioned the judge of the District Court for a mandamus to compel the defendants in error, composing the County Court of Fannin county, to organize Webster county under an ordinance or declaration of the Constitutional Convention of 1868. Plaintiffs alleged that they were residents and legal voters within the limits of the territory set out by the declaration; that the…
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Error from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. R. R. Gaines. J. R. Ryan and others, plaintiffs in error, petitioned the judge of the District Court for a mandamus to compel the defendants in error, composing the County Court of Fannin county, to organize Webster county under an ordinance or declaration of the Constitutional Convention of 1868. Plaintiffs alleged that they were residents and legal voters within the limits of the territory set out by the declaration; that the declaration was regularly adopted by said convention: and that defendants refused to organize said .county. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chibe Justice.
This case was advanced to a hearing, on motion of the plaintiffs in error, under rule 59, being a case relating to a matter of general public interest. It has been presented and argued by counsel, on both sides, in a most satisfactory manner, with a production of authorities that has enabled us to comprehend the case readily, and to come to a conclusion upon it at once, without delay.
This suit, which was held by the District Court to be not maintainable, is an application for the writ of mandamus, brought by the plaintiffs in error, as citizens and inhabitants, against…
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