Whitaker v. Dillard

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants, who are alleged and shown to be property owners and taxpayers in Bowie County, to restrain the county judge and commissioners of Bowie County from building a temporary court house or making any expenditure of money of the county for public purposes at a place which defendants claim was selected as the county seat at an election held on Hovember 25,1890, for the purpose of removing the county seat from Texarkana and locating it at the place claimed to have been thus selected.

They further sought to restrain these officers from removing…