Langford v. Brand

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellants, six residents of the Harris Brake Fire Protection District, seeking a judgment declaring the district to be void for the single reason that the quorum court ordinance creating the district was adopted before the required public notice and hearing rather than afterward. The county judge and the other defendants answer that the statute, properly construed, contemplates that the passage of the ordinance should precede the notice and hearing, which was the procedure used. The chancellor upheld the validity of the district. The…