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 | City and County Home Rule in Texas John Pirie Keith 1951
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 | Morrison v. Bachert, 112 Pa. 322, 328 (purpose of restriction)
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 | Ayars' App., 122 Pa. 266, 277 !!!!!
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 | Colley v. Jasper County, 337 Mo. 503, 85 SW2d 57
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 | Owen v. Baer (1899) 154 Mo. 434, 479-493, 55 S.W. 644, 657-661
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 | https://cite.case.law/pdf/967955/Owen%20v.%20Baer,%20154%20Mo.%20434%20(1900).pdf
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 | ==review==
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 | Juliff Gardens v. TCEQ, 131 S.W.3d 271 (TA 2004)
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 | City of Irving v. DFW Airport, 894 S.W.2d 456 (TA 1995)
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 | Scurlock Permian Corp. v. Brazos Co., 869 S.W.2d 478 (TA 1993, denied)
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 | Kelly v. State, 724 S.W.2d 42 (Tex.Crim.App. 1987)
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 | Suburban Util. Corp. v. State, 553 S.W.2d 396 (TCA 1977, nre)
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 | x Langdeau v. Bouknight, 162 Tex. 42, 344 S.W.2d 435 (1961)
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 | x Rios v. State, 162 Tex.Crim. 609, 288 S.W.2d 77 (1955)
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 | x Atwood v. Willacy Co. ND, 284 S.W.2d 275 (TCA 1955 nre)
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 | x San Antonio v. State, 270 S.W.2d 460 (TCA 1954 refd)
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 | x King v. Sheppard, 157 S.W.2d 682 (TCA 1941 refwm)
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 | x Womack v. Carson, 123 Tex. 260, 65 S.W.2d 485 (1933)
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 | x Stephensen v. Wood, 119 Tex. 564, 34 S.W.2d 246 (1931)
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 | Bradford v. City of Houston, 4 S.W.2d 592 (TCA 1928)
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 | Pierce v. Watkins, 114 Tex. 153, 263 S.W. 905 (1924)
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 | Dallas Gas Co. v. State, 261 S.W. 1063 (TCA 1924)
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 | x St. Louis S.W.R.R. v. State, 113 Tex. 570, 261 S.W. 996 (1924)
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 | x Urban v. Harris County, 251 S.W. 594 (TCA 1923 refd)
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 | x Ward v. Harris County, 209 S.W. 792 (TCA 1919)
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 | x Altgelt v. Gutzeit, 109 Tex. 123, 201 S.W. 400 (1918)
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 | x Reed v. Rogan, 94 Tex. 177, 59 S.W. 255 (1900)
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 | x Cordova v. State, 6 TCR 207 (1879)
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 | == true ==
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 | The prohibition against special legislation will be practically a dead letter. As it is the practice in the Legislature to yield and grant any local measure asked by any representative in that body, it is only necessary to demand a particular enactment for a special purpose, and if there is no constitutional constraint, it is passed as a matter of course. The legislative discretion in such cases extend only to the representations of the member who is interested in the passage of the bill.
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 | all counties where the same circumstances exist must have the same form of government
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 | so that a law for one class can reasonably be
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 | expected to work equally well for every member of the
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 | class ; while, if it works ill, it is almost certain to do so in
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 | every case, and that for some cause which lies deeper than
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 | the mere fact that the law is general. The number of
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 | places necessarily affected by a law prevents, moreover, the
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 | enactment of laws designed in the interest of one place
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 | only. If such a law be against the interest of the other
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 | communities affected by it, they will oppose its passage, and
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 | thus the unfair grant of special privileges will be prevented
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 | almost every local law affects people residing outside the locality, the
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 | distinction between general and local laws would seem,
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 | under the doctrine of these cases, to be very indefinite.
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 | there is a legitimate relationship between the size of a city and the privilege of detaching a portion of its territory and that Art. 1266, based upon such relationship, is a valid statute
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