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CITY OF COPPELL v. STATE EX REL. BURNS

No. 17126.

435 S.W.2d 919 (1968)

CITY OF COPPELL et al., Appellants, v. STATE of Texas on relation of John BURNS and J. R. McDonald, Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied January 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence W. Jackson, of Saner, Jack, Sallinger & Nichols, Dallas, for appellants.

Sandy M. Sandoloski, of Weinberg & Sandoloski, Douglas E. Bergman and John W. Clark, Jr., Dallas, for appellees.

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is a quo warranto proceeding. It challenges the validity of two disannexation ordinances passed by the Town of Coppell, now known as City of Coppell.

It is the second time the dispute has been before us. The first action was not in the form of quo warranto. We reversed the trial court's judgment on the ground, among others, that the validity of the disannexation ordinances could be questioned only in a quo warranto proceeding. Lusby...

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