Peters v. Leonard

An appeal is taken from the granting of a summary judgment in favor of the appel-lees, Obie P. Leonard, Jr., R. W. Leonard, Margery Ann Hodges and Mary Jane Anthony, and Patsy Barton in her capacity as the District Clerk of Delta County, Texas. Appellants are Jolly Peters and wife, Lillian Peters, and Larry W. (Bud) Skinner, and the Delta County Levee Improvement District No. 2. The controversy has a long history.

The Improvement District was created in 1919 and during that year it issued and sold bonds in the sum of $120,000.00. None of the principal or interest on the bonds was ever paid and…