Nine Hundred Main, Inc. v. City of Houston

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the 11th District Court of Harris County, sitting without a jury, awarding the City of Houston a $650.37 judgment against the appellant, a private corporation, for 1938 city taxes on the “air-conditioning system” located in a part of its “Chamber of Commerce Building” in Houston, together with foreclosure of a tax lien therefor upon such “system”, as being pursuant to R.S.Articles 7146, 7172, upon a holding that the “air-conditioning equipment and system” in the building constituted “a substantial addition to and improvement of it”, hence was…