Gaar, Scott Co. v. Shannon
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis County. Tried below before Hon. V. L. Brooks.
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, Associate Justice.
— Appellant instituted this suit against appellee individually to recover the sum of $575, with interest thereon, $287 of which was alleged to have been paid by it to him as Secretary of State on or about the 28th day of April, 1905, and $288 of which was paid to him as Secretary of State on April 30, 1906, which said amounts were paid as a franchise tax, claimed to be due from it to the State by virtue of the Acts of the 29th Legislature, pp. 21 and 100, for said years.
The suit was predicated on the contention that said Acts of the Legislature under which the tax was…
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