Blanc v. Meyer
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Waller. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Burk-hart. Suit by appellant, alleging that J. A. Meyer, tax collector of the city of Hempstead, had levied on and exposed for sale certain lots and blocks of ground, about twenty in number, in said city, property of appellant, of the value of $2,000, to enforce the payment of taxes due the city for the year 1881, $24 of which was school tax, $9.72 ad valorem, and $2.50 occupation tax.
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Appeal from Waller. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Burk-hart. Suit by appellant, alleging that J. A. Meyer, tax collector of the city of Hempstead, had levied on and exposed for sale certain lots and blocks of ground, about twenty in number, in said city, property of appellant, of the value of $2,000, to enforce the payment of taxes due the city for the year 1881, $24 of which was school tax, $9.72 ad valorem, and $2.50 occupation tax. Plaintiff alleged that the school tax was unjust and excessive; that the sale would place a cloud on his title, which alone would depreciate the value of…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.—
In view of the previous decisions of this court, the district judge did not err on final hearing in dissolving the injunction and dismissing the suit. The allegations in the petition were not sufficiently specific and full to have justified the court in perpetuating the injunction.
The precise grounds upon which the appellant sought to invoke the exercise of the equitable powers of the court are not stated with that exactness and particularity that is required where an injunction against the collection of taxes is sought.
It is not at all clear from the averments of the…
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