City of Aransas Pass v. Keeling

This suit is brought by the City of Aransas Pass and by the Mayor of said City,’ against the Attorney General of the State of Texas, for a mandamus to compel the approval of bonds, issued by the City in the principal sum of $213,000.00.

The Thirty-sixth Legislature, at its third called session, passed an act, which became effective on September 17, 1920, entitled “An Act to aid the City of Aransas Pass in constructing and maintaining seawalls, breakwaters and shore protections in order to protect said city from calamitous overflows, by donating to it the eight-ninths (8/9) of ad valorem taxes…