context: The "contract with voters" cases cited by Scarbrough similarly fail to accord her standing. Each of these cases acknowledged the standing of property-tax payers obligated to pay through their taxes for bonds issued for public construction projects pursuant to voter approval in a bond election.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 39 S.W.2d 82, 82-33
citation_a.parenthetical: treating pre-election orders as contract between commissioners' court and "electorate entitled to vote at said election" and overturning dismissal of voter and property-tax payer suit alleging diversion of proceeds from sale of bonds issued for use on certain public road
citation_a.sentence: See Fletcher, 39 S.W.2d at 82-33 (treating pre-election orders as contract between commissioners’ court and “electorate entitled to vote at said election” and overturning dismissal of voter and property-tax payer suit alleging diversion of proceeds from sale of bonds issued for use on certain public road); Black, 246 S.W. at 80 (holding that county commissioners’ court that had adopted order designating roads to be improved if bond issue carried could not designate other roads to be improved with proceeds of bonds after election contrary to “the will of those having to bear the bond burden”); Moore, 200 S.W. at 374-75 (in action by property owners subject to tax for bond issued pursuant to county bond election, affirming injunction against diversion of proceeds of bond sales to construction of bridge at different location than presented in petition for bond election); see also Taxpayers for Sensible Priorities, 79 S.W.3d at 675-76 (holding, following sale of general obligation bonds approved by city voters to develop waterway project and initiation of work on project, “It is elementary that the proceeds of bonds voted by the people must be expended for the purposes for which they were voted.”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 79 S.W.3d 675, 675-76
citation_b.parenthetical: holding, following sale of general obligation bonds approved by city voters to develop waterway project and initiation of work on project, "It is elementary that the proceeds of bonds voted by the people must be expended for the purposes for which they were voted."
citation_b.sentence: See Fletcher, 39 S.W.2d at 82-33 (treating pre-election orders as contract between commissioners’ court and “electorate entitled to vote at said election” and overturning dismissal of voter and property-tax payer suit alleging diversion of proceeds from sale of bonds issued for use on certain public road); Black, 246 S.W. at 80 (holding that county commissioners’ court that had adopted order designating roads to be improved if bond issue carried could not designate other roads to be improved with proceeds of bonds after election contrary to “the will of those having to bear the bond burden”); Moore, 200 S.W. at 374-75 (in action by property owners subject to tax for bond issued pursuant to county bond election, affirming injunction against diversion of proceeds of bond sales to construction of bridge at different location than presented in petition for bond election); see also Taxpayers for Sensible Priorities, 79 S.W.3d at 675-76 (holding, following sale of general obligation bonds approved by city voters to develop waterway project and initiation of work on project, “It is elementary that the proceeds of bonds voted by the people must be expended for the purposes for which they were voted.”).