Tarrant County v. Hollis

On Motion for Rehearing.

Appellee cites Cameron County v. Fox (Tex. Com. App.) 61 S.W.(2d) 483, 488, arid insists that this case is decisive. In that case the tax collector paid salaries to deputies without authority of the commissioners’ court, but that court approved his report to them of such payment and this the Supreme Court held was sufficient as ratification. That opinion and the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals in the same case, 42 S.W.(2d) 653, do not state just what the'approval consisted of. The opinion does state, “affirmative action in this respect, by the commissioners’…