Ireland v. Gordon

Decided July 1, 1873

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1873-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. Henry Maney. These were injunction cases to restrain the collection of seven-eighths of the one per cent, school tax, and five cents per hundred dollars frontier bond tax, and the five per cent, upon the assessment for justices’ commissions.

Decided 1873-07-01

Walker, J.

¶1There is a peculiarity in these cases, upon which we must reverse the judgment of the District ' Court.

¶2• We know of no authority for assessing the appellants with five per cent, commissions. It is unnecessary here "to notice any other question presented on these records.

¶3The judgments of the District Court are reversed; and -so far as the collections of the five per cent, commissions ds concerned, the injunctions are perpetuated.

¶4Reversed and reformed.