Roundtree v. City of Galveston
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal 'from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. A. P. McCormick. The suit was filed May 24, 1873, by the city of Galveston, against L. C. Roundtree, and plaintiffs pleadings allege, that the city of Galveston is a body politic and corporate, under and by virtue of a law of the State of Texas, commonly known as the “ Galveston City Charter.”
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Appeal 'from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. A. P. McCormick. The suit was filed May 24, 1873, by the city of Galveston, against L. C. Roundtree, and plaintiffs pleadings allege, that the city of Galveston is a body politic and corporate, under and by virtue of a law of the State of Texas, commonly known as the “ Galveston City Charter.” (See Charter, which is a public Act, passed and approved May 16, 1871.) That the defendant owned lot 8, in block 203, worth fifteen thousand dollars, and lying and being situate within the corporate limits of the city of Galveston, and fronting and…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This suit was brought by the city of Galveston *623to recover from L. 0. Roundtree, the appellant, one-fifth of the amount assessed upon a lot owned by him on Twenty-second street, in said city, for cost of improving the same, by shelling. Said amount being for one installment on said assessment for the payment of which appellee claims a lien on said lot.
As there is no statement of facts in the record, we can consider only such of the errors assigned as relate to the action of the court in overruling the exceptions to the petition, or as brings in question its sufficiency to warrant the judgment.
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