Cooper v. Conerty

TARLTOH, Judge,

Section B.—This suit was brought September 14,1888, in the District Court of Dallas County, by D. Cooper, plaintiff in error, against P. F. Conerty and the city of Dallas, defendants in error, to cancel a certain tax deed executed by the tax collector of the city of Dallas, purporting to convey to Conerty certain property of plaintiff.

The petition, after averring the ownership in plaintiff of the property in question, consisting of three lots in the city of Dallas, charged that the city, under a void ordinance, had levied a pavement tax of $6.62 per foot front on the property…