Carroll v. Williams, County Treasurer
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Ninth District, in an appeal from Jefferson County. Carroll and others sued for injunction restraining Williams, county treasurer, from paying out, on warrants drawn against the county road and bridge fund, certain moneys alleged to have been transferred unlawfully to that fund from another. The trial court sustained injunction. On appeal by defendants the judgment was reversed in part and in part sustained.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Ninth District, in an appeal from Jefferson County. Carroll and others sued for injunction restraining Williams, county treasurer, from paying out, on warrants drawn against the county road and bridge fund, certain moneys alleged to have been transferred unlawfully to that fund from another. The trial court sustained injunction. On appeal by defendants the judgment was reversed in part and in part sustained. Both parties then applied for and obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hawetus
The material facts which are disclosed by the record and are binding upon this court are to this effect:
Annually, for several years prior to 1914, the Commissioners Court of Jefferson County, as part of a general scheme for exacting from tax payers and expending on roads and bridges of the county more money than the Constitution of this State permits to be raised by taxation and expended for that purpose, deliberately and purposely levied, for various other purposes defined' by said Constitution, taxes which were known by that court, at the times of such levies thereof, to be much greater in…
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