Holbert v. City of Amarillo

PITTS, Chief Justice.

Appellee, the City of Amarillo, defendant in this action in the trial court, had previously purchased quite a number of City of Amarillo lots at a tax foreclosure sale in July of 1945. Appellant, Joyce Holbert, plaintiff in the trial court, claiming under the previous owners whose interests had been litigated in the tax -foreclosure , suit, instituted this suit on September 27, 1954, against appellee in the nature of trespass to try title. The case was tried before the trial court without a jury as a result of which judgment was rendered against appellant and for…