Harris County v. Hall

GRAVES, Justice.

In 1929, by what is now Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 6675a — 1 et seq. (chapter 88, Acts Second Called Session of the' 41st Legislature), the Legislature overhauled our statutes providing for the construction, maintenance, control, and support of all public highways of the state as a general system, and in section 10 of the new act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 6675a — 10) provided for the apportionment of the revenues derived for those purposes from a state-wide franchise tax, equally and uniformly levied upon all motor vehicles using such highways, in whatever counties…