City of Corsicana v. Kerr
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Navarro County. The suit was brought by Kerr and others to enjoin the city from selling certain lots for the payment of assessments for street paving. The writ of injunction was granted but was dissolved on final hearing by the trial court.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Navarro County. The suit was brought by Kerr and others to enjoin the city from selling certain lots for the payment of assessments for street paving. The writ of injunction was granted but was dissolved on final hearing by the trial court. Plaintiffs appealed and the judgment was reversed and cause remanded, and the city procured writ of error on the ground that the opinion practically settled the case.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
This suit was commenced in the District Court of Navarro County by C. P. Kerr and a number of other persons to enjoin the City of Corsicana, a municipal corporation organized under the general laws of the State of Texas, Jenk Evans, mayor, and J. H. Wood, W. W. Ballew and J. R. Goodman, the Pavement Committee, and aldermen of the said city, from selling certain lots set forth and described in the petition, for the payment of assessments made thereon by the City of Corsicana for paving streets upon which the said lots abut. The writ of injunction was granted as prayed…
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