Mayor of Chipley v. Layfield

Layfield and others, as citizens and taxpayers, filed a petition against the Mayor and Council of Chipley, an incorporated town in Harris county, to enjoin the collection of a tax which had been levied by the defendant. At the hearing an injunction was granted as prayed, and the defendant excepted. It appears that the town of Chipley was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly, approved December 9,1882 (Acts 1882-3, p. 265), and that the charter was amended by an act approved October 6, 1885 (Acts 1884 — 5, p. 387). In neither the original charter nor the amendment was any authority…