City of Waco v. Amicable Life Ins.

The Amicable Life Insurance Company, a domestic life insurance corporation, domiciled at Waco, McLen-nan county, Tex., brought thiá suit against the city of Waco and its taxing officers to cancel an assessment upon its personal property for the year 1919 amounting to $557,600, and to perpetually enjoin the city and its officers from demanding or collecting any part of the tax under said assessment. The district court upon a trial before the court' without a jury granted the relief prayed for, and the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed this judgment. 230 S. W. 698.

The assessment complained of was…