Werner v. City of Galveston

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

L. E. Trezevant in a motion for rehearing reviewed the opinion and urged:

It is submitted that the statutes under and by authority of which said tax is levied and sought to be collected and the proceedings thereunder are repugnant to the bill of rights and the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, upon the following grounds, to-wit:

To tax one man’s property to educate another man’s child is to take one man’s property and give it to another, which is against common right and is excepted out of the powers of government by the bill of rights and…