Hewitt v. Mays

This suit was filed in the district court of Navarro county by appellant against the appellees to contest the result of an election ordered by the commissioners’ court of that county under the provision of article 637h, Complete Texas Statutes, to determine whether or not certain bonds in the sum of $100,000, which had been voted in road district No. 2 of that county, should be canceled and revoked.

Appellant’s grounds of contest were substantially as follows: (1) That the petition which was presented to the commissioners’ court praying for the order of election was not signed by two-thirds of…