Masterson v. State of Texas

JAMES, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought by the county attorney of Val Verde County, in the name of the State, against appellant, to recover of him the State and county taxes alleged to have accrued for the year 1895 on a number of sections in that county, and to foreclose the lien. From the manner in which the case is briefed we will dispose of the propositions made by appellant, without further explanation of the pleadings.

The first proposition is that the suit is based on chapter 5a, entitled "Delinquent Taxes,” as it appears in the Bevised Statutes of 1895, and that said act in its…