Stockwell v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Brazoria County. The State, through Davis as Commissioner of Agriculture, sued Stockwell to enjoin him from interfering with the destruction of a certain citrus hedge by the agents of the Department. The State had judgment and Stockwell, appealing, obtained writ of error on affirmance of the judgment, 203 S. W., 109.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
delivered the opinion of the court. -
The suit was by the State through the Commissioner of Agriculture to have declared as a nuisance and abated a certain citrus trifoliata hedge belonging to the defendant Stockwell and situated on his premises in Alvin, Texas, and to enjoin him from in any manner interfering with the destruction of the hedge by the Commissioner or his deputies or agents.
It was asserted in the petition that the citrus trees in the hedge were all badly infected with citrus canker, a disease alleged to be contagious and destructive to citrus fruit trees, that under the law it…
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