Heller v. City of Alvarado

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This action was originally brought in a Justice Court of Johnson County, by the City of Alvarado against appellant, to recover $150 as license tax imposed by said city upon the occupation of a retail liquor dealer. Appellee sued as a municipal corporation, claiming to be duly incorporated under the laws of the State. Appellant filed a written plea in the Justice Court, termed by him a plea to the jurisdiction, in which he set up that the court was without jurisdiction to entertain a suit to collect taxes, and in support of this position alleged, that the ordinance…