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COATES v. WINDHAM

No. 13434.

613 S.W.2d 572 (1981)

Charles COATES, et al., Appellants, v. James M. WINDHAM, Individually and as Chairman of the Texas Board of Corrections et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl C. Hoppess, Houston, Malcolm Greenstein, Greenstein & Kolker, Austin, John M. Fultz, Fultz & Davis, Navasota, for appellants.

Mark White, Atty. Gen., Jerry D. Cain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for appellees.

POWERS, Associate Justice.

Appellants sued appellees in district court to permanently enjoin appellees from actions aimed at the expenditure of State funds, appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of paying the purchase price of lands intended to be used as the site of a State prison, operated by the Texas Department of Corrections.1

Ancillary to their petition for permanent injunction, appellants applied to the district...

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