Tackett v. Middleton

On plaintiff in error’s motion for rehearing in the Court of Civil Appeals, that court, in its concluding paragraph overruling the motion, says:

“Any obligation or debt created by a city government, which cannot be discharged from the revenues of the current year, and which matures at a period which makes it a charge upon the revenues for future years, is a debt within the meaning of sections 5 and 7, art. 11, state Constitution.”

This language of the Court of Civil Appeals, as well as the whole record of the proceedings upon the hearing, shows that the general demurrer to the plaintiff in…