Pirkle v. Bearden

W. D. Pirkle and numerous other petitioners filed their equitable petition against the commissioners of roads and revenues of Dawson county, praying that the defendants be restrained from putting into operation the alternative road law embraced in sections 694-704 of the Civil Code, and from expending any money of the county and levying a tax on the property of the taxpayers for the purpose of putting that law into operation. At the interlocutory hearing the injunction was refused, and the petitioners excepted.

At the March term, 1913, of the superior court of Dawson county the grand jury in…