First Texas Joint Stock Land Bank v. Kaufman County Levee Improvement Dist. No. 13

FOLLEY, Justice.

The defendant in error, Kaufman County Levee Improvement District No. 13, upon the relation of E. K. Atwood and E. L. Raphael, owners and holders of outstanding bonds against such levee district, filed this suit against the plaintiff in error, First Texas Joint Stock Land Bank, a corporation, who owned 175 acres of land within the levee district in Kaufman County, Texas. The suit was to recover 1936 taxes assessed against the land. The defendant in error recovered judgment by default in the sum of $658 as against the land for such assessment and for foreclosure of its lien as…