Pfluger v. Hutto Independent School Dist.

On September 28, 1928, the appellants sued appellee Hutto independent school district for $409.60, as taxes paid under mutual mistake that appellants’ land, against which the taxes were assessed, was in appellee district. The last of these taxes were paid January 20, 1926, and the court sustained appel-lee’s plea of limitation to the suit, finding and concluding as follows:

“That there was nothing to arouse in plaintiffs’ minds the slightest suspicion of the mistake, except the fact that said property (land) was situated a ‘long ways’ from the town of Hutto ; that in the fall of 1926 and' less…