Howard v. Mayor of Houston

Citations

• 59 Tex. 76
• 1883 Tex. LEXIS 108

Syllabus

<p>1. Taxation. — The act of July 4, 1879, prescribing a mode for the collection of state- and county taxes, and extending its provisions to taxes levied by towns and cities, was cumulative of the remedy already afforded by the provisions of the city charter of the city of Houston, granted by the legislature on the 21st of April, 1879, which authorized the collection of taxes due the city by action of debt in any court having jurisdiction.</p> <p>2. Cases cited and approved.— Dugan v. Baltimore, 1 Gill, 499; State v. Steamship Co., 13 La. Ann., 497, and Oakland v. Whipple, 89 Cal., 113, cited and approved.</p> <p>3. Bills of exception — Practice.—Though exceptions to the action of the court can be as well saved in the statement of facts as in a bill of exceptions, yet when a party resorts to this method of making a record of his objections to the ruling of the court below, he must follow the rules prescribed for bills of exceptions, and not for those governing statements of facts.</p>