Avery v. Cooper
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, First District, in an appeal from Waller County. Avery sued Cooper and others, school trustees, to enjoin the collection of taxes. He obtained injunction; but on defendants’ appeal the judgment was reversed and rendered in their favor", whereupon Avery obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The suit was instituted by J. W. Avery, as plaintiff, to restrain the trustees of the Brookshire Independent' School District, in Waller County, and the assessor and collector of taxes for such independent school district, W. D. Cooper, from the enforcement and collection of certain taxes levied for the year 1913 by the trustees upon his property for such school purposes. The assessment of the property made for the benefit of the school district was at a higher valuation than that made by the county assessor and approved by the County Commissioners’ Court for State and county purposes. The…
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