Holman v. Broadway Improvement Co.

Plaintiffs in error make up the commissioners’ court of Galveston county. Defendant in error has property within the county subject to taxation. By the petition it was made further to appear to the district court: (a) For 1926, the commissioners’ court, “for the construction of a sea wall” and strengthening same, levied an ad valorem tax equal to 25 cents on each $100 of value — the amount of plaintiff’s burden thereunder being $1,000. Levy in like amount and for that purpose is proposed for 1927. (b) Those levies have not been “authorized by a vote of two-thirds of the taxpayers or by any…