Texas Supreme Court March 27, 1885, Case No. 2051 (Taylor v. Boyd)

Stayton, Associate Justice.

The question whether the legislature could lawfully confer power upon the city of Houston to cause its *537streets to be improved and to impose a part of the cost of such work upon the property abutting thereon, by frontage, has been considered in effect, during the present term, in the case of Adams et al. v. L. C. Fisher et al.