Reeves County v. Pecos County

Citations

• 69 Tex. 177
• 7 S.W. 54
• 1887 Tex. LEXIS 802

Syllabus

<p>1. New Counties. — A legislative act which gives to the inhabitants of a portion of a county already created the right to organize a new county does not, of itself, create a corporate existence from the date of its enactment, and under it the new county when properly organized, cannot maintain an action to recover the amounts paid in taxes by its inhabitants between the date of the act authorizing its creation and the time when it perfected, under the law, its county organization.</p> <p>8. Counties. — If, by act of legislature, a part of the territory and inhabitants of a county be separated from it, and a new county created, the old county retains all its property, rights and privileges, and remains Subject to all its obligations, unless express provision be made to the contrary by the act creating the new county.</p>