Bummel v. Mayor, Aldermen & Inhabitants of Houston

Citations

• 68 Tex. 10
• 2 S.W. 740
• 1887 Tex. LEXIS 636

Syllabus

<p>1. Constitution Construed—Taxes—City Bonds.—Construing section 6, of article 11 of the State Constitution, which provides that taxes levied by a municipal corporation to pay an indebtedness theretofore • existing “may be paid in the coupons, bonds or other indebtedness, for the payment of which such tax was levied;” held, that unless the tax payer avails himself of his constitutional privilege to pay such taxes in such coupons, by tendering payment before the institution of suit against him to enforce collection, a tender after suit is unavailing, and the corporation is entitled to a moneyed judgment.</p>