TARRANT COUNTY v. ASHMORE

No. C-985.

635 S.W.2d 417 (1982)

TARRANT COUNTY et al., Petitioners, v. Bob ASHMORE et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tim Curry, Crim. Dist. Atty., Frederick M. Schattman, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, for petitioners.

Farrar & Claunch, Jim Claunch and Roy Basham, Charles Dickens, Fort Worth, for respondents.


POPE, Justice.

Bob Ashmore and others, all Tarrant County justices of the peace and constables threatened with removal from office by the redrafting of precinct boundary lines, brought this action for damages and for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Tarrant County Commissioners Court. The claims asserted in the suit were based upon alleged violations of procedural due process, and upon the purported rights of duly elected officeholders to complete their...

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