Legal Opinion

Brown v. Jefferson County

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 13, 1966No. A-11256Published

1Opinion of the Court

406 S.W.2d 185 (1966)

George W. BROWN, Jr., Petitioner,

v.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Texas, et al., Respondents.

No. A-11256.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 13, 1966.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 1966.

Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, William C. Harvin, with above firm, Houston, for petitioner.

W. C. Lindsey, Jr., Dist. Atty., Keith, Mehaffy & Weber, Beaumont, for respondents.

NORVELL, Justice.

We granted writ of error in this case primarily for the purpose of settling a point of dissent which arose in the Beaumont Court of Civil Appeals over the proper construction of this Court's holding in Texas & New Orleans…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Graves v. HornTexas Supreme Court · 1895
  2. United States v. BekinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. McNeal v. City of WacoTexas Supreme Court · 1895
  4. County of Mitchell v. City National BankTexas Supreme Court · 1898
  5. City of Aransas Pass v. KeelingTexas Supreme Court · 1923

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