Griffith v. State ex rel. Ainsworth
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Upton County; James Cornell, Judge. Proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto by the State, on the relation of L. W. Ains-worth, petitioner, against H. B. Griffith, seeking to oust respondent from the office of county judge of Upton county and to install relator in said office. From a judgment granting a temporary injunction, the respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWalthadl, J.
L. W. Ainsworth, on January 14, 1919, through his attorneys, presented to Hon. James Cornell, district judge of the Eighty-Third judicial district, Embracing Upton county, a petition for a temporary writ of injunction. The petition was signed by the district attorney of the Eighty-Third judicial district, and duly verified by appellee as relator, and asking leave to file an information in the nature of a quo war-ranto against H. B. Griffith, appellant, as defendant, seeking to oust appellant from the office of county judge of Upton county and to install in said office relator, Ainsworth.
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