Lufkin v. City of Galveston

Willie, Chief Justice.

This suit questions the right of the city council of the city of Galveston to levy for the municipal year beginning March 1, 1884, a tax of ninety-nine cents on the one hundred dollars of property within the city for general purposes, and seven cents on the one hundred dollars as an emergency fund.

The city claims the right to levy both of these taxes under her charter of 1876, and the appellant contends that the grant of power under which the first tax is laid is unconstitutional, and that in levying the second the city has exceeded her chartered authority.

The city’s…