City of Houston v. Bartlett

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Defendant in error brought this suit to cancel and remove a cloud upon his title to lots 6, 7, and 8 and one-half of lot 12, in block 83 in the city of Houston, a tax lien claimed by said city upon the above described property to secure the payment of taxes assessed by the city against said property for the years 1894, 1895, and 1896. The city of Houston answered by general and special exceptions and general denial and by special pleas setting up that the taxes upon said property for the years above mentioned were due and unpaid, and that at the time the defendant…