Williams v. Rogan

Stayton, Associate Justice. —

In 1879, the district conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in which district was situated the county of San Saba, proposed to-the inhabitants of six competing counties, of which San Saba county was one, to establish a high school in such one of the competing counties as would contribute the sum of $5,000 to assist in erecting houses, etc., for such school.

In the month of June of that year, a subscription was raised in San Saba county for that purpose, to which the appellant subscribed the sum of $200, to be paid in four equal instalments, the first…