Cassiano v. Ursuline Academy
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. On the 6fch day of May, 1884, appellee filed a bill in the district court of Bexar county praying an injunction against appellant as collector of taxes, restraining him from selling a certain tract of land situated in the city- of San Antonio, upon which had been erected certain improvements, which together with the improvements appellee claims to be exempt from taxation under the constitution and laws of the…
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. On the 6fch day of May, 1884, appellee filed a bill in the district court of Bexar county praying an injunction against appellant as collector of taxes, restraining him from selling a certain tract of land situated in the city- of San Antonio, upon which had been erected certain improvements, which together with the improvements appellee claims to be exempt from taxation under the constitution and laws of the state, as “used and owned exclusively for school purposes.” An interlocutory injunction was granted by the district judge in…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
The word building is a term as broad as the word house. House has been construed to mean both the structure and the land on which it stands. Gerke v. Purcell, 25 Ohio St., 227; Mullen v. Comm’rs, 85 Pa. St., 288; Trinity Church v. Boston, 118 Mass., 164, and cases cited in it. And when a mechanic has been given a lien upon the building he constructs, his lien has been extended by construction to enough of the land occupied by the building to support it and to furnish the room for its convenient enjoyment. Phillips on Mech. Liens, secs. 199, 200.
Whether the…
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