CM 1955-12-19
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF DALLAS
WHEREAS, on the 18th day of November, 1955, the application of
W. A. Hodges and more than 34 other electors of the proposed Town of
Coppell, County of Dallas, State of Texas, residing within the boundaries
thereof, which boundaries are hereinafter described in writing, was duly
signed and presented and filed with me, W. A.. Sterrett, County Judge of
Dallas County , Texas, praying that an election be ordered held in said
Town of Coppell, Texas, within the boundaries described in said application
by metes and bounds and hereinafter described as described in said appli-
cation, for the purpose of determining whether the said Town of Coppell,
Texas, shall form an incorporation under the Aldermanic form of governmant
and be incorporated for municipal purposes to include the territory des-
cribed in said application and said Town to be incorporated by the name
of "TOWN OF COPPELL, TEXAS", for municipal purposes urger and by virtue
of the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas, as a Town or Village,
and under Title 28, of Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, and
amendments thereto; and
THEREAS, on the 21st day of November, 1955, there was upon evidence
heard and proof submitted, found, adjudged, and determined by me, W. L.
Sterrett, County Judge of Dallas County, Texas, that the said Town of
Coppell, Texas, so proposed to be incorporated and the territory included
within the boundaries thereof, which said. boundaries are hereinafter des-
cribed, was wholly within Dallas County, Texas, and that the proposed Town
of Coppell, Texas, was not incorporated for municipal purposes and no
portion thereof was within a municipal corporation, and that said appli-
cation was signed by more than twenty of .the qualified electors, residents
within the boundaries described in said application, and it was further
found and adjudged that the territory embraced within said proposed Town
of Coppell, Texas, contains less than two (2) square tallest, and it was
further founded upon satisfactory and sufficient proof thereof, that the
said proposed Town of Coppell, Texas, contained more than two hundred
(200) and less than ten thousand (10, 000) inhabitants residing within the
territory therein described and that all of the land embraced therein was
such as is intended to be used strictly for Town purposes, and that the
said petitioners were entitled to have the proposition as prayed for in
their said application submitted as described in Title 28, Revised Civil
Statutes of Texas of 1925, and thereupon, on November 21, 1955, I,
Sterrett, County Judge of Dallas County, Texas, ordered that an election
be held on the 17th day of December, 1955, in the said proposed Town of
Coppell, Texas, and within the boundaries described in said application,
which boundaries as therein described are hereinafter described, for the
purpose of determining whether the Town of Coppell, Texas, shall be in-
corporated under the Aldermanic form of government for municipal purposes
as prayed for, which order has been entered in the minutes of the Commis-
sioners' Court of Dallas County, Texas, and which is referred to and made
a part hereof for all purposes; and
WHEREAS, notice of said election was given as is provided for by
law; and
WHEREAS, said election was held on the 17th day of December,
in accordance with said order and in accordance with the C~nstitution and
Laws of the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, on this the 19th day of December, 1955, returns of said
election were duly made and filed with me, and being duly opened and
canvassed by me and said returns being so canvassed, it was found and
determined that there were cast at said election:
CORPORATION, 41 Votes
NO CORPORATION, 1 Vote
MAJORITY FOR CORPORATION, 40 Votes
and said returns of said election being in all respects in conformity with
law, it was adjudged that a majority of the qualified electors of said
Town of Coppell, Texas, voting at said election, voted in favor of the
said Town of Coppell, Texas, being incorporated under the Aldermanic form
of government for municipal purposes.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, W. L. STERRETT, County Judge of Dallas County,
Texas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, and in pursuance
to Title 28, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, do hereby declare
and make known to all persons that the said Town of Coppell, Texas, is
legally incorporated under the aldermanic form of government for muni-
cipal purposes, under the name of "TOWN OF COPPELL, TEXAS", including
all of the inhabitants and territory within the boundaries described
hereinafter and shall hence forth be entitled to exercise all of the
rights, powers, immunities, privileges and franchises as conferred in
Chapter ll, of Title 28, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, and
amendments thereto relating to Towns and Villages, and the Constitution
and General Laws of the State of Texas, to include and embrace the follow-
ing described territory and lands, being the same as described in said
application, and in said order and notice of election, and described by
metes and bounds as follows:
"Being a part of the E. A. Crow Survey, Abstract
No. 301, the J. A. Simmons Survey, Abstract No.
1296, the S. A. & M. G. RR. Survey, Abstract No.
1439, the J. F. Vest Survey, Abstract
and the J. W. Anderson Survey, abstract No.
Dallas County, Texas, and being more particularly
described by metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the center line of New
Belt Line Road at its intersection with the North
corporate limits of the City of Dallas, Texas,
as established on first reading;
THENCE North along the center line of N'ew Belt
Line Road to a point 1320 feet South of the
center line of Thweatt Road
THENCE West 5280 feet;
THENCE South and parallel to the center line of
New Belt Line Road 9200 feet to a point;
THENCE East passing a Northwest corner of the
City of Dallas, Texas, as established on first
reading, continuing along t~ North corporate
limits of the City of Dallas, Texas, to the
place of Beginning.
THIS ORDER is made and entered by me in the records of the Commie-
sioners' Court of Dallas County, T~xas, this the 19th day of December,
1955, and the County Clerk is ordered to p~epare and duly certify a true,
full and correct copy of this order, together with a plat of said Town of
Coppell, Texas, and to record the same in the proper Deed Records of
Dallas County, Texas.
IN WITNESS ~REOF, my official hand this the 19th day of December,
1955.
W. L. STER~ETT
County Judge of Dallas County, Texas