Reynolds Land & Cattle Co. v. McCabe

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant, a private corporation, against appellees, to restrain the collection of a sjDecial school tax of fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property, assessed and levied in School District Ho. 1, of Throckmorton County. The legality of the tax is assailed on two grounds: First, that the Commissioners Court exceeded their authority in dividing the county into school districts; and, second, that the election for the special tax was not ordered in accordance Avith the laAV.

The Commissioners Court, in the exercise of their power…