City of Dallas v. Morris

Mr. Presiding Commissioner HARVEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District has submitted a certificate containing certified questions. The certificate shows that the city of Dallas instituted this suit, on September 20, 1925, against Mrs. I. J. Morris, a married woman, to recover of her the amount of a paving assessment made against her in the matter of paving a street upon which abuts a city lot alleged to be the separate property of Mrs. Morris. The fact of coverture of Mrs. Morris appears from the face of the original petition. The husband of Mrs.…