Anderson v. City of Seven Points

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that trial court’s findings of fact have 11 “same force and dignity as a jury’s verdict upon questions”
• explaining that trial court’s findings of fact have “same force and dignity as a jury’s verdict upon questions”
• stating that “[a]ct is ministerial when the law clearly spells out the duty to be performed by the official with sufficient specificity that nothing is left to the exercise of discretion”
• requiring mayor to hold election on question of abolishing city’s corporate existence
• once trial court determined that requisite number of voters had signed petition, mayor had no discretion; act was ministerial
• “A writ of mandamus will issue to compel a public official to perform a ministerial act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).