Scanlan v. Gulf Bitulithic Co.

Appeal is from a judgment in favor of ap-pellee for principal, interest, and attorneys’ fees on assessment paving certificates assigned to appellee by the city of Houston, as part payment for paving Telephone road, one of its streets; and for foreclosure of paving lien on appellants’ property abutting on said street. Appellants’ answer to the suit was a general demurrer, general denial, and a plea “that the proper steps and proceedings upon which to base the certificates sued upon in this case and to fix a lien upon the land of these defendants” were not taken. This plea added nothing to the…