Texas & Pacific R'y Co. v. Harrison County
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hoii. A. J. Booty. The opinion sufficiently states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
The T. & P. R’y Co. brought this suit, to enjoin the collection of a tax of one-sixth of one per cent., levied in 1878 by the commissioners’ court of Harrison county, under the act of August 7, 1876, to “ascertain the amount due teachers,” . . . to “provide for the payment of the same,” and to recover back other taxes for that year alleged to have been illegally exacted, and paid under protest. The tax of one-sixth of one per cent, and other county taxes levied were objected to as illegal, and the assessment was also objected to on various grounds.
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