Bummel v. Mayor, Aldermen & Inhabitants of Houston

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appel*11lees to recover of appellant certain sums of money due from him for taxes levied and assessed against him by the authorities of the city of Houston, and to enforce a lien upon the real estate upon which the assessments were made. The taxes sued for embrace assessments both for current expenses and also to pay the accrued obligations upon a certain bonded indebtedness of the city. The petition was filed on the twentieth day of October, 1884. Appellant answered on the thirteenth day of March, 1885, and alleged that on the tenth day of…