Lamar-Delta County Levee Imp. Dist. No. 2 v. Gordon

HALL, Justice.

Appellant is a body corporate organized, as its name implies, for the purpose of reclaiming certain farm lands adjacent to Sulphur River located in Lamar and Delta Counties. It instituted this suit in the District Court of Lamar County in 1938 for delinquent taxes, penalty and interest alleged to be due it for the year 1936 by Henry Gordon, appellee. Later by amendment, the taxes alleged to be due by appellee for the years 1937, 1938 and 1939 were included in the suit. Ap-pellee answered with general denial, and also set up a final judgment in his favor and against appellant…