Smith v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Dallas. Action in name of appellee against appellant, for failing to render property for taxation, “"to the damage of the plaintiff one hundred dollars, wherefore,” &c.
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Appeal from Dallas. Action in name of appellee against appellant, for failing to render property for taxation, “"to the damage of the plaintiff one hundred dollars, wherefore,” &c. The facts were agreed upon and submitted to the judge, as follows : “It is agreed that Bowles came to Texas iu the winter of 184;), and settled in Dallas comity, and made an improvement upon uncultivated land within the limits of Peters’s colony; that Bowles died in the spring of 18-17; that the land upon which he died and upon which his family lived at the time of the demand by the assessor and collector in 1S47…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
The proceedings in this ease were intended to subject the appellant to a fine for failing to return to the assessor and collector some real estate for taxation supposed to belong to his intestate. The question of the liability of the appellant is believed iiot to have been presented in the mode authorized by law, and the course adopted, to say the least of it, is singularly awkward. A petition is filed in which the State of Texas complains of John W. Smith, a citizen of the said county and State, that lie is tiie administrator of the estate of F. Bowles, and alleges that there is real and…
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