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COUNTY OF HARRIS v. SHEPPERD

No. A-5591.

291 S.W.2d 721 (1956)

COUNTY of HARRIS, Texas, Relator, v. John Ben SHEPPERD, Attorney General of Texas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 11, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burke Holman, County Atty., Houston, Tex., for relator.

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., Elbert M. Morrow and Frank Pinedo, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

CULVER, Justice.

Harris County seeks a mandamus to require the Attorney General to approve certain bonds which the County proposes to issue under the authority of Chapter 382, Acts of the 54th Legislature, 1955.

Section 1 of the Act reads:

"This local law for the maintenance of public highways for Harris County shall not be operative unless or until a majority of the resident property taxpayers who are...

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