Girardin v. Dean
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below the Hon. William H. Stewart. Under the act to authorize the several counties of the State to raise means to pay their indebtedness, approved May 1, 1874, (Paschal’s Dig., 6026m,) the County Court of Galveston county levied, for the year 1875, upon the property, real and personal, in Galveston county, a tax of one-eighth of one per cent.
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Appeal from Galveston. Tried below the Hon. William H. Stewart. Under the act to authorize the several counties of the State to raise means to pay their indebtedness, approved May 1, 1874, (Paschal’s Dig., 6026m,) the County Court of Galveston county levied, for the year 1875, upon the property, real and personal, in Galveston county, a tax of one-eighth of one per cent. The County Court did not levy this tax upon the occupations and professions taxed by the State in said county. The law authorizing said tax is as follows: * * * “ The County Courts shall proceed to levy a special tax on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The court did not err in overruling the plaintiffs’ exceptions to defendant’s plea of res adjudícala, as to such of the plaintiffs as were parties to the former suit. It is plainly apparent from the answer, and exhibits attached to and made a part of it, that the subject-matter of this suit is identical with one of the issues in the former action. In this case, just as in the former suit, the plaintiffs allege that the tax' of one-eighth of one per cent, on the assessed value of the taxable property situated and owned in Galveston county, for the year 1875, which the…
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