# Brown v. Jefferson County

> Texas Supreme Court · July 13, 1966 · 9 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 539

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9673855

## Case

- **Full name:** George W. BROWN, Jr., Petitioner, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY, Texas, Et Al., Respondents
- **Court:** Texas Supreme Court
- **Decided:** July 13, 1966
- **Citations:** 9 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 539; 406 S.W.2d 185; 1966 Tex. LEXIS 273
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Griffin
- **Judges:** Norvell, Griffin, Greenhill
- **Cited by:** 29 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding that although a "hold harmless" provision created an indeterminate future liability, the county could agree to it if it levied the tax and established the sinking fund required by the Constitution

## Opinion text

DISSENTING OPINION
GRIFFIN, Justice.
I cannot agree with the majority opinion herein.
To my mind this case is controlled by the case of Texas & New Orleans R. R. Co. v. Galveston County, 141 Tex. 34 , 169 S.W.2d 713 (1943). The attempted distinctions between this case and the Galveston County case are neither logical nor valid.
I would hold the order in question illegal and void and violative of the Constitution as set out in the dissenting opinion in the Court of Civil Appeals.
GREENHILL, J., joins in this dissent.

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