Gulf Bitulithic Co. v. Nueces County

The appeal has to. do with the nature and extent of the powers and discretion of county commissioners’ courts in the expenditure of money derived from the sale of county bonds for the construction and maintenance of public roads.

At a county-wide election held in Nueces county on July 20, 1919, the commissioners’ court of that county was authorized to issue bonds in the sum of $2,000,000 for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating macadamized, gravel, or paved roads, etc., in the county. In pursuance of this authority the commissioners, on August 11 thereafter, issued said…