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Turner v. City of Houston

51 S.W. 642, 21 Tex. Civ. App. 214, 1899 Tex. App. LEXIS 321
CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas
DecidedMay 18, 1899
StatusPublished
Cited by11 cases

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Turner v. City of Houston, 51 S.W. 642, 21 Tex. Civ. App. 214, 1899 Tex. App. LEXIS 321 (Tex. Ct. App. 1899).

Opinion

GARRETT, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by the city of Houston against E. P. Turner and his wife, Mary V. Turner, and Frank Dunn for the recovery of taxes due the city and for the foreclosure of a lien therefor upon certain property assessed- against the defendants. The original petition was filed September 11, 1894, and in it the plaintiff sought to recover, as taxes due upon said property, the sum of $1576.60 for the years 1881 to 1889, inclusive. The defendants appeared in the cause by an answer filed on October 4, 1895. Afterwards, on June 8, 1897, the plaintiff filed an amended original petition in which it sought to recover the sum of $2323, taxes due the city for the year 1881 to 1889, sued for in the original petition, and the additional years 1890 to 1893, *215 inclusive, and the year 1896. A statement of the taxes due on the property made from the tax rolls certified to and signed by the city, assessor and collector was attached to the petition and made a part thereof, as follows:

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