Aransas County v. Coleman-Fulton Pasture Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Aransas County. The Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company and others brought suit against the county and its officers to enjoin the issue and sale of bonds voted by the county for the construction of a causeway and bridge. The injunction was refused by the district’judge and plaintiffs appealed.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Aransas County. The Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company and others brought suit against the county and its officers to enjoin the issue and sale of bonds voted by the county for the construction of a causeway and bridge. The injunction was refused by the district’judge and plaintiffs appealed. On the order refusing injunction being reversed and the case remanded with instructions that it issue, defendants obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
By the amendment of 1903 authority is given by section 52 of article 3 of the Constitution to any county, any political subdivision of a county, any number of adjoining counties, etc., acting under legislative provision, upon a vote of a two-thirds majority of the duly qualified resident property taxpayers of the district or territory to be affected thereby, in addition to all other debts, to issue bonds in any amount not in excess of one-fourth of the assessed valuation of the real property of such district or territory, for, among other purposes, the following:
"The construction, maintenance…
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