Case ID: sw_242/html/0752-01.html
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Author: {"author": "JENKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SMITH v. PATTERSON.
    (No. 6605.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Austin.
    June 15, 1922.)
    Appeal from District Court, Travis County:. Cooper Sansom, Judge.
    Suit by John T. Smith against J. M. Patterson, Chairman of the Democratic Executive1 Committee of Travis County. Judgment of dismissal, and plaintiff appeals. Judgment sustained pursuant to Supreme Court’s answer to. certified question. 242 S. W. 749.
    A. L. Green, Geo. C. Butte, and Ira P. Hildebrand, all of Austin, for appellant.
    J. M. Patterson, of Austin, W. A. -Keeling,. Atty. Gen., and Bruce Bryant, Asst. Atty. Gen.,, for appellee.
   JENKINS, J.

This suit was brought by appellant to test the constitutionality of Acts-37th Leg. 2d Called Sess. c. 6 (Vernon’s Ann. Supp. 1922, arts. 26, 27), reapportioning the-state into representative districts, in which act Swisher county was not mentioned as being in eluded in any district. The judgment of the-trial court sustained the constitutionality of' this act.

Upon appeal to this court, in order to obtain a final hearing before the time for names to be printed on the primary ticket, we certified, the question to the Supreme Court. That court has answered the certified question (242 S. W. 749), holding the act to be constitutional. Upon authority of this decision, we affirm the; judgment of the trial court.

Affirmed.