Stanfield v. State

HENRY, Associate Justice.—

This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto to remove appellant from the office of county superintendent of public instruction of Bexar County.

It appears from the petition, that the appellant had been duly elected to the office for a term which has not yet expired, and that the only ground of complaint was that the County Commissioners Court of Bexar County had abolished the office in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of this State approved April 6, 1889, one section of which reads as follows: “That the County Commissioners Court of any county in…