Webb County v. Board of School Trustees
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Webb County. The action was by the independent school district of Laredo and its trustees, against Webb County, and judgment was rendered for defendant on demurrer. On appeal by plaintiffs the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded; and thereupon the county obtained writ of error on the ground that the case involved the construction and application of the-Constitution of the State.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This action was originally brought by the city of Laredo against the county of Webb to recover the proportion of the available school fund of the county due to the independent school district of the city of Laredo for a series of years before the filing of the suit. A demurrer to the petition was interposed for the want of proper parties and the trustees of the independent school district intervened, setting up the same cause of action "and claiming a recovery thereon. The court sustained the demurrer both to the petition of the plaintiff and to the intervening petition…
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