City of Fort Worth v. Davis
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the lion. A. J. Hood. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Chief Justice.
W. H. Davis and others, citizens of Fort Worth, brought this suit to enjoin the city and its tax collector from further proceedings to collect a tax of one-fourth of one per cent., levied for the year 1880 for the maintenance of public schools in said city during the year ending April 3, 1881. The material facts alleged and agreed on by the parties may be thus stated: In January, 1877, the city council of Fort Worth, a city of less than ten thousand inhabitants, acting under the general incorporation act, ordered an election for the purpose of determining whether or not…
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