Gordon v. Lake

WALKER, JUSTICE.

This is an original proceeding in which Gerald S. Gordon et al, relators, seek a writ of mandamus requiring Honorable P. Frank Lake, Secretary of State, respondent, to file a corporate charter setting forth the purposes formerly authorized by Article 1303b, Vernon’s Ann. Texas Civ. Stat. The statute was expressly repealed by the Legislature effective ninety days after May 29, 1961. Acts 1961, 57th Leg., p. 458, ch. 229. Relators *394presented their original charter to respondent on August 3, 1961. An amended charter was submitted five days later, and respondent refused to file the…