Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co. v. State

POWERS, Justice.

The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company recovered summary judgment against the State of Texas and certain State officials. 1 The judgment awards Hartford recovery for the excess amounts it had paid the State involuntarily, in specified years, for the gross-premiums tax imposed in Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 7064 (1960), a statute presently found at Tex.Ins.Code Ann. art. 4.10 (1981 & Supp. 1987). The trial court rejected Hartford’s plea for pre-judgment “interest” on the excess taxes and from this part of the judgment Hartford appeals. Believing Hartford was…