State v. Glass

GRAVES, Justice.

Jim H. Glass, as Tax Assessor and Collector of Harris County, filed this suit, in the nature of a bill of interpleader, both against Harris County (its Commissioners Court and County Auditor) and the Texas Highway Department (its State Highway Commissioners and Engineer) — the County, on the one hand, and the Highway Department, on the other, being the real parties at interest — to have determined whatever rights either or both had to a total fund of $33,673.50 he then had in his hands, derived from his having retained — in administering that statute — 25 cents or one-half of…