State v. Wischkaemper

STOKES, Justice.

On November 18, 1940, Collingsworth County entered into a written contract with C. Land, an attorney residing at Memphis in Hall County, under the terms of which Land was to undertake the collection of certain delinquent taxes due and owing to Collingsworth County and the State of Texas. The contract provided that it should be in force from January 1, 1941, to December 31, 1942, at which time it would terminate except as to pending tax suits filed by Land and as to those he was allowed six months after the expiration of the contract in which to prosecute them to final judgment…