Harris v. City of Fort Worth

This suit was brought by the City of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Independent School District against Charles H. Harris, E. E. Bewley, Charles F. Roeser, Mark McMahon, and W. K. Stripling, trustees, to recover personal property taxes on forty-six promissory notes payable to thé Mary Gouts Burnett Trust. Upon a trial before the court without a jury, upon a stipulation of facts, judgment was rendered for the defendants. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed the judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment for the plaintiffs. 177 S. W. (2d) 308.

In 1923 Mary Gouts Burnett, who owned a…