Bassett v. City of El Paso
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. Plaintiffs in error, taxpayers in city of El Paso, brought this suit to enjoin the issuance by the city of certain waterworks bonds. The injunction was refused by District Court and the judgment was affirmed by Court of Civil Appeals.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. Plaintiffs in error, taxpayers in city of El Paso, brought this suit to enjoin the issuance by the city of certain waterworks bonds. The injunction was refused by District Court and the judgment was affirmed by Court of Civil Appeals. The findings of fact by the trial judge, adopted by the Court of Civil Appeals, are as follows: “1. The taxable property of the city of El Paso for the fiscal year beginning March 1, 1893, is $5,359,190. “2. The taxes assessed for said fiscal year 1893, by the city of El Paso,…
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
—Plaintiffs in error, property holders and taxpayers in the city of El Paso, brought this suit to restrain said city and its officers from issuing its bonds to the amount of $175,-000, for the purpose of securing a system of waterworks.
On the 11th day of August, 1893, the city council passed an ordinance providing, among other things not necessary to mention, (1) for the issuance of said bonds, to bear date October 1, 1893, with interest from date at the rate of 6 per cent, payable on the first days of April and October of each year, and to mature thirty years from…
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