Red v. Morris

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants against the appellee as tax collector of Travis County to enjoin him from making a sale of certain property described in the petition for the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1887. A preliminary injunction was granted, but upon final hearing a decree was rendered dissolving it, and from that decree this appeal is prosecuted.

The ground upon which the tax was sought to be avoided was that the property was used exclusively and owned by the plaintiffs for school pur*555poses, and that it was therefore exempt from taxation under our…