Meyer v. Brown

OPINION

SAM BASS, Justice.

This appeal requires that we determine the eligibility of the appellee, Texas Senator James E. “Buster” Brown, to run for the office of Texas attorney general in the March 1990 Republican primary election. The parties agree that there are no disputed issues of fact, and that the sole question of law is whether the attorney general’s retirement benefits constitute an *316“emolument” of that office. If so, Senator Brown is barred from running for attorney general by our supreme court’s decision in Strake v. First Court of Appeals, 704 S.W.2d 746 (Tex. 1986).

This controversy…