Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank of Dallas v. Willacy County Water Control & Improvement Dist. No. 1

NORVELL, Justice.

Article 7880 — 109, Vernon’s Ann. Civ.Stats., in part provides that: “Suits for delinquent water assessments may be brought either in the county in which the irrigation district is situated or in the county in which the defendant resides.”

Appellant asserts that because of the provisions of Article 3, § 35, of the Texas Constitution, Vernon’s Ann. St., the provision above quoted is inoperative.

We overrule this contention. Hidalgo and Cameron Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 9 v. American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation 'Co., 5 Cir., 103 F.2d 509.

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