City of Wichita Falls v. Cooper

SPEER, Justice.

Plaintiff G. W. Cooper instituted this suit against defendant, the City of Wichita Falls, to have declared void an ordinance passed by the city in 1933, effective January 1, 1934, exempting from all taxes $3,-000 of the assessed taxable values of all residence homesteads situated within the corporate limits of the city; seeking also a permanent injunction against defendant from allowing such exemption and issuing a certificate therefor in the future to the owners of such residence homesteads.

Plaintiff filed and prosecuted the suit in his own name and for the use and benefit of…