Robertson v. Breedlove
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from. Washington. Tried below before the Hon. I. B. McFarland. Suit by Robertson et al., tax-payers of Washington county, for injunction to restrain the county commissioners’ court from issuing negotiable bonds to the amount of $00,000, for the erection of a new court-house, and from levying taxes for that purpose.
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Appeal from. Washington. Tried below before the Hon. I. B. McFarland. Suit by Robertson et al., tax-payers of Washington county, for injunction to restrain the county commissioners’ court from issuing negotiable bonds to the amount of $00,000, for the erection of a new court-house, and from levying taxes for that purpose. The petitioners stated that they were citizens of Washington county; that the taxable property of the county had been assessed for the year 1883 at $7,500,000; that taxes for 1883 had theretofore been levied as follows: County, ad valorem and general tax, fifteen cents;…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.—
The objection taken in the demurrer of the defendants below to the jurisdiction of the district court is not insisted upon here. This court has so frequently decided in favor of such jurisdiction that we need only refer, for a disposition of. the point, to a few of the leading decisions in which the question has been settled. County of Anderson v. Kennedy, 58 Tex., 616; Blessing v. City of Galveston,. 42 Tex., 641; George v. Dean, 47 Tex., 73.
The sole question for our decision is: Had the county of Washington, at the time the commissioners’ court took action upon the…
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