State v. Baker

Moore, Associate Justice.

This is a suit on behalf of the State, brought by the district attorney October 24, 1874, in the District Court of Galveston county, for the collection of the ad-valorem and one-eighth of one per cent, school tax for the year 1871, and interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent, per annum from January 1, 1872, assessed against appellees as the owners of lots numbers 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, and 7, in block number 255, in the city of Galveston.

It is alleged in the petition, as we infer from the agreed statement, upon which the case comes before us, that said lots were “…