TARRANT COUNTY v. ASHMORE

No. 18555.

624 S.W.2d 740 (1981)

TARRANT COUNTY, Texas, et al., Appellants, v. Bob ASHMORE, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied December 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick M. Schattman, Fort Worth, for appellants.

Farrar & Claunch, Jim Claunch, Dickens & Paddock, Charles Dickens, Fort Worth, for appellees.

Before MASSEY, C. J., and SPURLOCK and HOLMAN, JJ.


OPINION

HOLMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment that (1) a redistricting plan ordered by the county commissioners court deprived incumbent justices of the peace and constables of their terms of office without due process of law; and (2) the dispossessed officeholders are entitled to receive salaries and benefits for the remainder of their original terms of office.

We affirm.

Appellees were Tarrant County justices of the peace and...

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