Presidio County v. Jeff Davis County

NEILL, Associate Justice.

— This suit wa.s brought April 25, 1895, in the District Court of Presidio County by appellant against Jeff Davis County, which was on April 26, 1893, created and taken from the territory of Presidio County, to recover from the appellee its proportion of the liabilities of appellant existing at the date of the creation of the county of Jeff Davis, whose proportion of the liabilities was alleged to be $19,410 of bonded and $7313 of unbonded indebtedness, aggregating $26,723.

The appellee answered (1) by pleading its privilege of being sued in the District Court of its…