House v. Phelan

STAYTOU, Chief Justice.

William and F. P. Phelan were partners, married men, engaged in business as machinists and boilermakers, on a lot on which with their families they also resided. They not having paid the taxes due to the city of Dallas on personal property, sometime in January, 1887, appellant House, collector of taxes for the city, demanded the sum due, which amounted to $28.25, and payment not being made, through a deputy he demanded a levy on personal property, whereupon one of the Phelans pointed out the lathe, which was levied upon and subsequently sold by the collector to…