Slaughter v. City of Dallas
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth. District, in an. appeal from. Dallas County. The city sued Slaughter to recover taxes and foreclose lien therefor on a., city lot, and recovered judgment. Slaughter prosecuted error and obtained a writ of error from the Supreme Court on a judgment reforming and affirming the judgment of the trial court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Gaines
This suit was brought by the city of Dallas to recover of defendant, Slaughter, back taxes due the city for the years, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896 upon a certain lot described in the petition and to enforce & lien thereon. The trial was had before the court without a jury and resulted in a judgment for the city for the full amount claimed and for the enforcement of a lien .upon the property. Hpon appeal, the .Court of Civil Appeals reformed the judgment so as to relieve' Slaughter from personal liability for the taxes but decreed that the judgment should be enforced as a lien upon…
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