Lasater v. Lopez
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Jim Weils County. The suit was by Lasater and others, tax-payers of Duval County against Lopez, county treasurer, the county judge and commissioners, and White, the holder of certain county warrants, which it sought to have declared invalid and their payment restrained. The venue was changed from Duval to Jim Wells County, where trial resulted in judgment for defendants.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Jim Weils County. The suit was by Lasater and others, tax-payers of Duval County against Lopez, county treasurer, the county judge and commissioners, and White, the holder of certain county warrants, which it sought to have declared invalid and their payment restrained. The venue was changed from Duval to Jim Wells County, where trial resulted in judgment for defendants. This on plaintiffs’ appeal was affirmed and they obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The purpose of the suit, instituted by Ed. C. Lasater and other taxpayers of Duval County against Alonzo Lopez, County Treasurer, the County Judge, the Commissioners and Marshall White, was to have declared invalid a series of interest-bearing county warrants aggregating $25,000 and maturing in annual installments throughout a period of sixteen and a half years, issued without the authorization of a vote of the property taxpayers to White for the construction of public roads in the county under a contract entered into by the Commissioners Court in the year 1915.
The contract and the warrants…
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