W. R. Davis, Inc. v. State

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a $6,809.44 judgment of the 126th District Court of Travis County, sitting without a jury, in favor of the appellee, the State of Texas, against the appellants (W. R. Davis, Inc., a dissolved corporation, and James Lee Kauffman, ancillary executory of the will and estate of W. R. Davis, deceased), as for the aggregate amount of occupation taxes, penalties, interest, and auditor’s fees found by it to be due the State from the Davis estate as gas-production taxes under Article 7047b, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended by Article II of…