Irving Independent School District v. Delta Airlines, Inc.

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

Delta Airlines, Inc. sued the Irving Independent School District, the District’s Tax Assessor Collector, its Board of Equalization and Board of Trustees and obtained a declaratory judgment and permanent injunction. The judgment declared the airline’s thirty-five year leasehold interest in a 15.49 acre tract of land and improvements thereon at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport 1 tax exempt and relieved the airline from tax liability to the school district, as well as, from liens and actions or threats of actions to enforce tax collection so long as the land and…