Texas_V._White

Texas V. White TEXAS V. WHITE. Texas v. White, a suit of the state of Texas against George W. White, John Chiles, and others, was filed in the United States Supreme Court on February 15, 1867, during the administration of A. J. Hamilton,qv ad interim Reconstructionqv governor of Texas, and sought an injunction to restrain the defendants from using Texas Indemnity Bonds paid to them by Texas after secessionqv for supplies for the Confederate States of America and to obtain the restoration of fifty-one of the bonds. The case was argued by George W. Paschalqv and R. T. Merrick for the state and Philip Philips, Albert Pike, J. W. Carlisle, and J. W. Moore for the defense. The most historically significant question involved was whether or not Texas, having seceded and not having completed Reconstruction, had status in the Union and therefore the right to sue in the United States Supreme Court. The specific legal questions concerned the authority of Paschal, texas, states, union, court, state, bonds, white, paschal, government, case, united, therefore, status, right, decision, argued, supreme, involved, confederate, chiles, war, validity, unlawful, transfer, sue, specific, since, seceded, represent, reconstruction, recognized, questions, question, proceeds, legal