Couch v. Earnest

FLY, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs in error are the county judge and commissioners, and the county clerk of Hidalgo county; the defendant in error being the assessor of taxes of the same county, who sought and obtained a writ of mandamus compelling the commissioners’ court to fix a tax rate and levy a tax on all property in old road district No. 1, to create a sinking fund and interest on $168,000 of bonds, being the residue of an original issue of $250,000 of bonds of said road district, which consists of the whole county, with the exception of that part of said county included in the Donna…