CITY OF FORT WORTH v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.

No. 7797.

80 F.2d 972 (1936)

CITY OF FORT WORTH et al. v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 2, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. E. Rouer and R. M. Rowland, both of Fort Worth, Tex., for appellants.

Wm. E. Allen, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Nelson Phillips and Wm. H. Duls, both of Dallas, Tex., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges, and STRUM, District Judge.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The city of Fort Worth and Independent School District of Fort Worth, each being a public corporation of Texas, having the same power of taxing property within its limits and having the same tax officers and substantially the same territorial limits, in 1927 for the first time assessed for taxation as a separate item of property the "easement" of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in the streets and alleys of Fort Worth in virtue of which...

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