Parker v. Buckner

Citations

• 67 Tex. 20
• 2 S.W. 746
• 1886 Tex. LEXIS 607

Syllabus

<p>i. School Voucher—Statute Construed.—Section 1 of the act of April 2, 1883 (see acts of 1883, pp. 41-3), which, among other things, provided that all claims audited as valid under the act of 1879 which had not been paid, might be paid by warrant on the county treasury against the school district owing the claim, was intended to embrace all unpaid claims then audited, whether a levy had been made for their payment or not; and the mode of collection therein provided was designed as a substitute for, and not an addition to, the remedy afforded by previous laws.</p> <p>3. Same—Statute Construed.—Section 4 of the same act is not unconstitutional as applicable to claims already audited, and for which a tax had been levied. It applied to the remedy, and neither interfered with a. vested right or impaired the obligation of a contract.</p> <p>3. Cases Reviewed.—McLane v. Paschal, 63 Texas, 102, and DeCordova v. Galveston, 4 Texas, 470, reviewed.</p> <p>4. Statutes Construed—Constitutional Law.—Section 4 of the act above referred to is not in conflict with section 36, article 16, of the Constitution.</p>