Allbright v. Governor of Texas
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Houston. Tried Below before the Hon. R. A, Reeves. This suit was Brought in the name of “ The Governor of the State of Texas,” for the use and benefit of the State, against Jacob Allbright, assessor and collector of taxes, and George Click and William Allbright, sureties on his official bond, executed on the 31st day of August, 1848, alleging that said Jacob was on the day and year last aforesaid elected and qualified as- assessor anJ collector of taxes' for…
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Appeal from Houston. Tried Below before the Hon. R. A, Reeves. This suit was Brought in the name of “ The Governor of the State of Texas,” for the use and benefit of the State, against Jacob Allbright, assessor and collector of taxes, and George Click and William Allbright, sureties on his official bond, executed on the 31st day of August, 1848, alleging that said Jacob was on the day and year last aforesaid elected and qualified as- assessor anJ collector of taxes' for Houston county. The plaintiff filed as a part of his petition an account current, With the following caption: “ Dr.…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
The parties to this suit have not taken the pains to make this record as intelligible by us as we could desire. We presume, however, that the expression “-record assessment,” employed by the comptroller in the statement of the account of the appellant, means the assessment of that property situated within the county which is owned by non-residents of the county. Nearly the whole of the account, as stated against the appellant, appears to consist of the amounts due upon these “ record assessments” for the two years, 1846 and 1847. The two letters written by the comptroller to the appellant,…
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