State ex rel. Hoya v. Dunson

Citations

• 71 Tex. 65
• 9 S.W. 103
• 1888 Tex. LEXIS 1101

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipal Corporation not Dissolved by Failure to Elect Officers.—A municipal corporation is not dissolved by the failure to elect officers.</p> <p>8. Re-organization of Corporation.—The laws in force since the adoption of the Revised Statutes do not provide for the re-organization of any municipal corporation by the acceptance of the general law in lieu of a former charter, whereby the former corporation is practically dissolved, in any manner other than that prescribed in article 340 of the Revised Statutes.</p> <p>3. Same.—Any effort on part of the inhabitants of territory within an existing corporation otherwise than as so provided, is without authority, and of no legal effect. So, also, any effort to increase the bounddaries of such corporation otherwise than as provided by existing statutes.</p> <p>4. Same.—A reorganization in 1887 of the territory of a town incorporated in 1859, under the act of January 27, 1858, was void.</p> <p>5. Quo Warranto.—The district courts have jurisdiction in such eases testing the validity of such reorganization.</p>