Hinojosa v. Edgerton

STEAKLEY, Justice.

George H. Edgerton, et al., Respondents, instituted this suit seeking an order of the court declaring that forty-five instruments accepted and filed by Jose S. Hinojosa, County Clerk of Starr County, Petitioner, were not subject to recordation and that the action of the County Clerk in accepting and filing the instruments was void and of no effect; Respondents further sought judicial relief ordering the instruments stricken from the official records of the county. The instruments in question consisted of marriage records of Camargo, Republic of Mexico, together with…