Legal Opinion

Taxpayers' Association v. City of Houston

Texas Supreme Court

Decided May 12, 1937No. 7240PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Critz

This suit was instituted in the district court of Harris County, Texas, by the Taxpayers’ Association of Harris County, Texas, a private corporation, and a number of individual prop erty taxpayers of the City of Houston, Texas, hereinafter designated the Association et al., against the City of Houston, Texas, a municipal corporation, and a number of its officers and agents not necessary to name, hereinafter designated the City et al., to enjoin the enforcement of two ordinances fixing minimum salaries for certain of the officers and employees of the city. One of the ordinances fixes minimum…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  2. Ley v. DominguezCalifornia Supreme Court · 1931
  3. Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. City of DallasTexas Supreme Court · 1911
  4. State Ex Rel. Pike v. City of BellinghamWashington Supreme Court · 1935
  5. State ex rel. Martin v. EastcottSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1928

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3Cited by55 opinions

  1. Quick v. City of AustinTexas Supreme Court · 1999
  2. Brown v. ToddTexas Supreme Court · 2001
  3. Glass v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 1951
  4. Coalson v. City Council of VictoriaTexas Supreme Court · 1980
  5. In re WoodfillTexas Supreme Court · 2015

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