Mills County v. Lampasas County
Texas Supreme Court
Questions Certified by Court of Civil Appeals, Third District, in an appeal from Lampasas County.
1Opinion of the Court
GANES, Chief Justice.—This
This is a certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District. The certificate shows that Mills County was a new county created and organized in 1887 and that its territory was taken from Lampasas, Brown, Hamilton and Comanche Counties; that the suit was brought by Lampasas County to recover from Mills County its proportionate part of the debt of the plaintiff county, which existed when the defendant county was created; and that the claim was not first presented to the Commissioners Court of the latter county for allowance. The…
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