HAINSWORTH v. HARRIS COUNTY COM'RS COURT

No. 12663.

265 S.W.2d 217 (1954)

HAINSWORTH v. HARRIS COUNTY COM'RS COURT.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Hainsworth, Houston, for appellant.

De Lange, Hudspeth & Pitman, Albert J. De Lange, C. M. Hudspeth, and Eugene J. Pitman, Houston, for appellee.


GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal by the appellant, a colored man, is from a judgment of the 129th District Court of Harris County, Texas, Hon. Dan W. Jackson, Judge, presiding without a jury, denying the appellant, who was the sole plaintiff below, a writ of mandamus requiring the appellees, who constituted the Commissioners' Court of Harris County, Texas, and were defendants below "to remove the sign, designated `Colored,' from the table in the Harris County Law Library...

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