MOORE v. HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT

Civ. A. Nos. 73-H-993, 73-H-1033.

378 F.Supp. 1006 (1974)

Richard E. MOORE et al., Plaintiffs, v. HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT et al., Defendants. Blackie NEELEY, Plaintiffs, v. HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT, as an entity, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

February 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil H. Barfield, C. Anthony Friloux, Jr., Eddington & Friloux, Houston, Tex., Larry B. Kerfoot, Gardner, Turner, Kerfoot, & Guttman, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Edward J. Landry, Senior Asst. Co. Atty., Houston, Tex., for defendants.

Before GEE, Circuit Judge, and SINGLETON and BUE, District Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs are duly elected Justices of the Peace, Constables and voters of three former Harris County precincts which have been abolished by order of defendants, the County Judge and Commissioners of Harris County, Texas. At the time of the order, and today, the terms to which the plaintiff office-holders were elected had not expired. The Commissioners acted under authority of a Texas Constitutional provision1 permitting...

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