League v. Brazoria County Road Dist. No. 13
League v. Brazoria County Road Dist. No. 13
Opinion of the Court
August 19, 1915, plaintiffs, J. C. League and others, appellants here, brought this suit against the county judge and county commissioners of Brazoria county and the presiding judge and the judges of election appointed by the commissioners’ court, to enjoin and restrain the holding of an election by the qualified voters in road district No. 13 of Brazoria county to determine whether the bonds of said road district in the sum of $150,000 should be issued for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating macadamized, graveled, or paved roads in said district, and whether a tax should be levied upon the property subject to taxation in said district, for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, and to provide a sinking fund for their redemption *1013 at maturity. The petition was presented to Hon. J. W. Woods, special judge of the Sixty-First judicial district court of Harris county, the regular judge of the district court of Brazoria county being inaccessible at that time, and the said special district) judge granted a temporary injunction returnable to the district court of Brazoria county on the beginning of its September term, to wit, September 6, 1915. No appeal was prosecuted from the order granting the temporary injunction. September 23, 1915, Frank Andrews, as receiver of St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad Company, intervened as party plaintiff, and the original plaintiffs filed an amended petition, both parties praying for a permanent injunction, and on the same day the defendants filed an amended answer, containing a general demurrer and special exceptions to the amended petition and plea in intervention. Thereafter, the case coming on to be heard at a regular term of the district court of Brazoria county, and the parties having announced ready upon the questions of law raised by the demurrer and special exceptions, the court, after due consideration, sustained the general demurrer and all special exceptions and dissolved the temporary injunction theretofore granted by Special District Judge Woods, and, aa no relief other than an injunction was sought, dismissed the case. From this action of the court the plaintiffs have appealed.
Appellants’ second assignment of error complains of the action of the court in sustaining the exception of defendants to the effect that the temporary injunction granted by Special Judge Woods was a nullity, for the reason that a special judge of a district court is without power to grant an injunction returnable to any other court.
The eighth assignment complains of the action of the court in sustaining defendants’ special exceptions to the eighth paragraph of the amended petition, which is as follows:
“The tax rolls of Brazoria county, Tex., for the year 1914 show that of the 77 persons whose names are signed to the petition for election to determine the question of said bond issue, the following named 29 persons paid no poll tax for the year 1914, viz.: Edward Biggs, J. R. Mitchell, J. F. Guger, A. J. Lundgren, G. K. Kohlman, P. J. Krause, G. D. Prewitt, S. H. Mack, G. G. Bootner, Henry BaJlows, James Brown, Zebze Brown, Asa Ishmore, Andrew Mills, William Hill, J. O. Connock, D. J. Og-burn, W. Houston, Henry Hanson, Sam Gas-ton, H. Pink, Collin Campbell, A. Mithers, Joseph Reynolds, Pete Davis, John Scott, Lee Coleman, Jackson Davis, Jasper York. That of the persons whose names are signed to said petition for said election order, Houston Williams lives at West Columbia, and not in said district No. 13. That petitioners are informed and believe, and, so believing, eharg'e, C. A. Seaborn renders personal property for the year 1915, valued on the county tax roll at $115_, resides in the town of Columbia and. not in said district; that the name of J. O. Lindquist, another of the signers of the said petition, is on the nonresident roll for 1914 and renders no property for taxes for 1915. That the following named persons, whose names are signed to said petition, do not render any property for the year 1915: H. P. Hopkins, J. Rhodes Wright, A. J. Lundgrun, G. K. Kohlman, A. N. Nack, E. Yivla, James Brown, Zebze Brown, J. Connack, Elmer Krause, Henry Hanson, Henry Howard, Dan Gaston, L. T. Patton, Isam P. Cannell, Joseph Reynolds, John Scott, Robert Smith, Will Williams, and J. W. Watson, and that Walter Crain, Jr., one of the signers, resides at Sweeny and not in said district, and in consequence of all of which the said petition for election so ordered is not signed by the number of voters required by article 3, § 52, of the Constitution of the state, and article 628 of Sayles’ Civil Statutes, and the commissioners’ court of Brazoria county was without authority to order said election.”
The judgment of the court below is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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