Ireland v. Gordon
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. Henry Maney. These were injunction cases to restrain the collection of seven-eighths of the one per cent, school tax, and five cents per hundred dollars frontier bond tax, and the five per cent, upon the assessment for justices’ commissions.
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Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before the Hon. Henry Maney. These were injunction cases to restrain the collection of seven-eighths of the one per cent, school tax, and five cents per hundred dollars frontier bond tax, and the five per cent, upon the assessment for justices’ commissions. The petitions contained the usual averments, alleging the illegality of the claim for more than one-eighth of one per cent, school tax, and of the-frontier bond tax, and of the claim for five per cent: upon the assessment for commissions, claimed under Section 30 of “ An act to give effect to the several…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
There is a peculiarity in these cases, upon which we must reverse the judgment of the District ' Court.
• We know of no authority for assessing the appellants with five per cent, commissions. It is unnecessary here "to notice any other question presented on these records.
The judgments of the District Court are reversed; and -so far as the collections of the five per cent, commissions ds concerned, the injunctions are perpetuated.
Reversed and reformed.
2Cited by1 opinion
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