White v. Thos. Y. Pickett & Co.

POPE, Justice.

E. T. White and more than one hundred other Aransas County taxpayers sought to enjoin the County from paying Thos. Y. Pickett & Company, Inc., the sum of $5,648.-79, under a contract Pickett had with the County for making surface evaluation of lands. They claimed that the contract was void, but the trial court denied their prayer for injunction. The taxpayers have appealed. They argue that (1) Aransas County lacked statutory authority to employ Pickett to appraise property subject to taxation, (2) the employment of Pickett amounted to a usurpation of the powers vested in the Tax…