State of Texas v. Merchant

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This was a suit in the nature of a quo warranto brought September 23, 1904, by the State of Texas on the relation of the county attorney of Hardin County against Ambrose Merchant and others claiming to be mayor and officers of the town of Sour Lake, and against said pretended corporation, to oust the said persons from acting as officers thereof and to have the said corporation declared null and void. The case was-submitted to the court without the intervention of a jury and resulted in a judgment, in favor of the defendants sustaining the corporation. On this appeal by…