Nolan, Sheriff v. San Antonio Ranch Co.

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

Appellee owned a ranch situated in Maverick and Kinney counties, which according to the averments of the petition embraces about 250,000 acres, on which it had about 10,000 cattle in the year 1889. Eive thousand of these were assessed for taxation in Kinney County, and the collector had seized some of them for the purpose of sale to pay the sum due on the assessment, when this suit was brought to restrain him on the ground that the taxes on all the cattle had been paid in Maverick County.

The petition alleges that about 200,000 acres of appellee’s pasture was in Maverick…