Ashby v. James

This is an appeal from an order overruling the motion of appellants to dissolve a temporary injunction. The appel-lees, James and others, taxpayers of Dallam county, presented their petition, praying for a restraining order against Lawrence Ashby, county judge, and the county commissioners, the tax assessor, and tax collector of Dallam county, and certain other parties purporting to have entered into certain contracts with the commissioners’ court, concerning the erection of a courthouse, and the issuance of certain bonds to obtain money for such purposes under a subterfuge of county…