STATE v. CLARENDON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

No. A-5753.

298 S.W.2d 111 (1957)

The STATE of Texas on the Relation of Cleve O. BENNETT et al., Petitioners, v. CLARENDON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

February 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Y. King, County Atty., Clarendon, S. E. Fish, Amarillo, Smith, Teed, Wade & Waters, Pampa, for petitioners.

Porter & Lowe, Clarendon, for respondents.


GARWOOD, Justice.

Over a contest of our jurisdiction based on the "election contest" subdivision of Article 1821, Vernon's Tex.Civ.Stats.,1 we granted this writ of error to review the action of the Court of Civil Appeals in affirming the dismissal of the suit by the trial court on the ground that, while the action was one of quo warranto to the name of the State to test the validity of a school district consolidation, the State...

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