City of Waco v. Higginson

For a long time prior to December 29, 1913, the city of Waco was a municipal corporation with over 10,000 inhabitants, created and organized under a special act of the Legislature granting it a charter. The latter definitely described and established the territorial limits of that city.

In. 1912, the people of Texas adopted the so-cailed “Home Rule Amendment” to their state Constitution, which amendment reads as follows: ,

“Cities having more than five thousand (5,-000) inhabitants may, by a majority vote of the qualified voters of said city, at an election held for, that purpose, adopt or…