Crabb v. Celeste Independent School District
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fifth District, in an appeal from Hunt County. Crabb and others sued the Celeste Independent School District. Defendant had judgment. Plaintiff appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibrell
Long prior to January 1, 1907, the Celeste Independent School District in Hunt County was duly incorporated in accordance with law, and while Celeste was an incorporated town it had never assumed charge or control of the public free schools within its limits as such. Several years prior to January, 1907, the exact time not appearing from the record, the property tax paying voters of this Independent School District voted a tax of twenty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of the property subject to taxation therein, and for some years had annually levied and collected such tax for the…
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