Dallas Title & Trust Co. v. City of Oak Cliff
Court of Appeals of Texas
Error from Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Edward Gray. 1. Tbe court erred in bolding that plaintiff could maintain a suit for tbe collection of its taxes. Bordages v. Higgins, 1 Texas [Civ. App., 43; City of Fort Worth v. Davis, 57 Texas, 237; Allen v. City of Galveston, 51 Texas, 318; Wood v. City of Galveston, 76 Texas, 132; Cool, on Tax., 13, 300, 464; Dill. Mun.
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Error from Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Edward Gray. 1. Tbe court erred in bolding that plaintiff could maintain a suit for tbe collection of its taxes. Bordages v. Higgins, 1 Texas [Civ. App., 43; City of Fort Worth v. Davis, 57 Texas, 237; Allen v. City of Galveston, 51 Texas, 318; Wood v. City of Galveston, 76 Texas, 132; Cool, on Tax., 13, 300, 464; Dill. Mun. Corp., secs. 769, 815, 816; Bank v. United States, 19 Wall., 227; Potter’s Dwarris on Statutes, 275; Flournoy v. Jefferson-ville, 17 Ind., 160. 2. Tbe court erred in bolding that the city could collect its taxes by suit in tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
FINLEY, Associate Justice.
This suit was -instituted by defendant in error to recover of plaintiffs in error ad valorem taxes claimed to be due on their lots situated in the city of Oalr Cliff, which is incorporated under the general law relating to the incorporating of cities. A personal judgment was rendered in favor of defendant in error for the full amount of taxes, decreeing it to be a lien on the land, and foreclosing the same. From said judgment this writ of error is prosecuted. .
The statement of facts contained in the record is a concise agreed statement of the facts proven upon the…
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