City of Houston v. Parkinson

BELL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment enjoining the levying of any assessment against the property owners on Alba, Fisher, Donovan and Brinkman Streets in Houston for the paving of said streets, and cancelling any assessments that had been made, and holding void the ordinance making the assessments. The judgment was based on jury findings that the only notice given of the hearing on the proposed assessments was by publication in the Houston *902Press; that all those owning property on said streets were not given the right to be heard at the hearing date of February 20, 1963 on'…