Cook v. City of Booker

JACICSON, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Lipscomb County, Texas on August 25, 1941, by the plaintiff, the City of Booker, a municipal corporation, against Bony Cook, defendant, to recover the sum of $1,135.51 delinquent taxes, interest, penalty and costs alleged to have accrued to plaintiff because of the nonpayment of taxes in certain years on certain property owned by the defendant. The taxes due, the property covered and the years on which the taxes are delinquent are itemized in a schedule attached to and made a part of plaintiff’s petition.

The plaintiff…