Sheppard v. Giebel

BAUGH, Justice.

This suit was brought by numerous owners and operators throughout Texas of electric phonographs, or electric victro-las, operated by the use of coins, against the Comptroller, Attorney General, and various other officers subsequently dismissed from the suit, to enjoin the collection of taxes, interference with or destruction of such machines as nuisances because of failure to pay such tax, and to enjoin criminal prosecutions, under the provisions of H.B. 223, Acts 44th Leg., 1935, Regular Sess., ch. 354, p. 905 (Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 7047a — i note). Judgment was rendered,…