Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. City of Whitesboro

WILLSON, O. J.

(after stating the facts as above). Before it extended its corporation lines for school purposes only, appellee was a city or town constituting a separate and independent school district within the meaning of section 3 of article 7 of the Constitution as amended in 1909. We think there is no doubt, if appellee continued to be such a district, it had power to levy the taxes in controversy here, for by the express terms of said section of the Constitution as so amended the limitation therein of the amount of taxes which could' be levied for school purposes to 50 cents on the $100…