Mills County v. Brown County

TARLTON, Judge,

Section B.—As a basis for the presentation of the questions involved in this suit, the following statement of its nature is admitted by the parties to be correct: By an act of the Legislature, approved March 15, 1887, Mills County was created out of territory taken from the counties of Lampasas, Hamilton, Brown, and Comanche.

Section 2 of the act provides, that the “new county shall defray all expenses incurred in perfecting its organization, and shall also pay its pro rata of the liabilities of the four several counties from which territory is taken to constitute it, in…