Zachary v. City of Uvalde

This was a suit by defendant in error to recover from plaintiffs in error certain delinquent taxes with a foreclosure of the tax lien.

The principal ground upon which plaintiffs in error sought to defeat a recovery of the taxes alleged to be due was that the board of equalization fixed the value of their property without investigation and without accurate knowledge as to the condition of said property and arbitrarily and unfairly assessed it above its true value.

At the dose of the evidence the trial court peremptorily instructed the jury to render a verdict for the defendant' in error without…