Hutcheson v. Storrie
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. Storrie brought suit against Bettie M. Hutcheson and her husband upon improvement certificates issued to him as contractor, against her property abutting on the highway improved. He had judgment enforcing the lien of the certificate, and defendants appealed. On affirmance of the judgment by the Court of Civil Appeals, appellants obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
We omit many of the facts of this case which are immaterial in considering the questions presented to this court. The following are the material facts:
Bettie M. Hutcheson, wife of J. C. Hutcheson, owned in her separate right a block of land containing about twenty acres fronting 647 feet on the north side of the Harrisburg road and some other lots upon the said road, — all lying within the limits of the city of Houston between the International & Great Northern Railroad and the corporate line of the city.
At a meeting of the city council of the city of Houston, held on…
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