City of Oak Cliff v. State Ex Rel. Gill
Texas Supreme Court
Motion to vacate the judgment rendered in this ease March 7, 1904, ante, p. 383, on the ground of disqualification of the Chief Justice as being a taxpayer in the city of Dallas.
1Opinion of the Court
BBOWM, Associate Justice.
Plaintiff in error moves this court to vacate the judgment entered in this cause for the reason that Chief Justice Gaines is disqualified to sit as a judge in the trial because he is a property owner and taxpayer of the city of Dallas. The act which annexed Oak Cliff to the city of Dallas contains these provisions: Section 4. "The city of Dallas shall, within sixty days after this act takes effect, levy a tax sufficient to provide a sinking fund and interest for fifty thousand dollars in bonds.” Section 9. "That the city council of the city of Dallas shall be…
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