Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. State

Citations

• 39 Tex. 148

Syllabus

<p>1. The instructions of the Comptroller to a sheriff, authorizing him to employ counsel to prosecute suits on delinquent tax lists, need not he in writing. If the authority he disputed, it may he established hy parol.</p> <p>2. The statute regulating the manner in which lists of delinquent taxpayers shall he made out, is directory; and if its essential requirements he complied with, it-is sufficient.</p>