Glenn v. Dallas County Bois D'Arc Island Levee Dist.

Appellee instituted this suit for the purpose of recovering an annual assessment levied against appellant’s land in the form of a levee district tax imposed in behalf of appellee, which is a levee district incorporated under the statutory provisions of chapter 44, General Laws of Texas, enacted at the Fourth Called Session of the Thirty-Fifth Legislature (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1922, arts. 5584%-5584%tt), an enactment generally designated as the “Laney Act.”

The pleadings upon which appellant based his resistance to the suit were a general demurrer, a general denial, and certain special…