Johnson v. Campbell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Richardson. • The cases of Johnson v. Wertzner and Johnson v. Cope were by agreement of counsel to abide the decision in Johnson v. Campbell.
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Appeal from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Richardson. • The cases of Johnson v. Wertzner and Johnson v. Cope were by agreement of counsel to abide the decision in Johnson v. Campbell. On the eighth of March, 1872, R. F. Campbell filed his petition to compel, by mandamus, John S. Johnson, treasurer of Bastrop county, to pay him $675. This was the sum alleged So be due to parties named for services as special policemen, in Bastrop county, between the tenth of September and the sixteenth of October, 1871, and for which vouchers were issued by Thomas Williams, who signed the same as…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
These cases are submitted together and present one and the same question for decision.
The points made by the appellant are, first, that mandamus will not lie to compel him to pay money out of *87the county treasury; and second, that the act authorizing the Governor to appoint special policemen and provide for their payment is unconstitutional, because the object of the act is not embraced in its title, the tax is not equal and uniform throughout the State, and that under the provisions of the act a citizen of the State may be deprived of his property without due course of law.
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