City of Cleburne v. Gulf, Colordo & Santa Fe Ry.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. On July 6, A. D. 1885, the appellee, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Bailway Company instituted this suit in the district court of Johnson county, Texas, against appellant, the city of Cleburne, and the mayor and aldermen and tax collector of appellant, for debt on certain warrants or scrip, and for injunction.
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Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. On July 6, A. D. 1885, the appellee, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Bailway Company instituted this suit in the district court of Johnson county, Texas, against appellant, the city of Cleburne, and the mayor and aldermen and tax collector of appellant, for debt on certain warrants or scrip, and for injunction. On the trial, the appellee abandoned its suit against all of the defendants except the appellant, and abandoned all of the allegations except those, which in substance, were as follows: That appellee was an incorporated…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
Sec. 3 of Art. 11, of the Constitution, prohibits municipal corporations from making appropriations or donations, or loans of its credit to private corporations. The object of this provision was to deprive municipalities of the power possessed by them under the constitution of 1869, in the exercise of which many counties and towns in'the state assumed burdens, not yet discharged, in anticipation of benefits never realized. The increase in population and values expected from railway connection in many instances never came; and the tax, not lightened from these…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- G., C. & Santa Fe R. R. Co. v. EddinsTexas Supreme Court · 1884
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