Court v. O'Connor
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Aransas. Tried below before the Hon. H. Clay Pleas-ants. On July 2, 1885, Thomas O’Connor, the appellee, filed his petition for injunction, in the district court of Aransas county, against P. P. Court, sheriff and tax-collector of the county, to restrain that officer from selling certain lands of O’Connor, situated in Aransas county, for taxes, for the year 1884, assessed against those lands and four thousand head of cattle.
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Appeal from Aransas. Tried below before the Hon. H. Clay Pleas-ants. On July 2, 1885, Thomas O’Connor, the appellee, filed his petition for injunction, in the district court of Aransas county, against P. P. Court, sheriff and tax-collector of the county, to restrain that officer from selling certain lands of O’Connor, situated in Aransas county, for taxes, for the year 1884, assessed against those lands and four thousand head of cattle. The petition alleged, that O’ Connor was a resident of Refugio county; that he owned a pasture lying partly in the county of his residence and partly in…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
Art. 4676 Bevised Statutes provides, that all property, real and personal, except such as is required to be listed and assessed otherwise, shall be listed and assessed in the county where it is situated. There is no provision specially excepting cattle ranging near the line of two counties from this requirement. Tet it is obvious that to require the owner to list cattle, running in a pasture which crossed the division line of two counties, in the county where they were located on the first day of January of any year, would, in many cases, be to require an impossibility,…
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