Dean v. Lufkin

Gould, Associate Justice.

The history of the case is thus given in the brief of counsel for appellant:

On the 11th day of February, 1879, the commissioners’ court of Galveston county levied the following county taxes, to wit:

1st. A direct ad valorem tax of twenty-five cents on the $100 worth of property.

2d. They reduced the tax theretofore levied to provide for the interest and payment of the principal of bonds issued by the county of Galveston to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad Company to twenty-five cents on the $100 worth of property; said tax having been levied sometime during the…