Legal Opinion
Brown v. City of Galveston
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 26, 1903No. 1229PublishedCited by 139 opinions
Questions certified from the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Galveston County.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The Court of Civil Appeals for the First District certified to this court the questions' hereinafter copied, with a statement from which we make the following extracts and condensed statement of facts alleged in the petition, which will be sufficient to understand the points discussed in this opinion:
“A. A. Brown and about fifty other citizens of Galveston brought this suit for themselves and all others similarly situated against the city of Galveston, a municipal corporation, for an injunction to restrain the enforcement of certain ordinances of the city requiring…
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