Bexar County v. Wentworth

This is an appeal from an order granting appellee, Earl J. Wentworth, a temporary injunction restraining appellant, Bexar County, from carrying out a contract to purchase from appellant, The Shoup Voting Machine Corporation, one hundred new voting machines for the sum of $182,300. Wentworth, as a taxpaying citizen of Bexar County, alleged that the contract was'illegal and void because Anthony J. Ploch, who cast the deciding vote to let the contract (the count stood 3-2), holds an exclusive sales contract with the Shoup Corporation whereby Ploch receives a commission of 10% on the sale of…