Rolison v. Puckett

This suit involves the validity of a tax judgment in favor of the City of Sherman, Texas, a home rule city, which is attacked in a collateral proceeding, and an alleged waiver by the city of such rights as it acquired under the judgment, foreclosure, and sheriff’s sale.

Before 1930 the property involved was owned as community property by E. W. and Nannie Neagle, husband and .wife, and they occupied it as their homestead. As shown by the facts, detailed below, in 1930 the city obtained a tax foreclosure on the property and a sheriff’s deed thereto; but possession was not demanded by the city,…