EAST AND MT. HOUSTON IND. SCH. D. v. SOUTH TEXAS LBR. CO.

No. 12735.

269 S.W.2d 692 (1954)

EAST and MT. HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST. v. SOUTH TEXAS LUMBER CO.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Knipp, Houston, for appellant.

Platt, West & Stevenson, J. A. Platt, and Arthur Platt, Jr., Houston, for appellee.


GRAVES, Justice.

This was a suit by appellant School District against the appellee Lumber Company to recover for taxes claimed to be owing to the School District by the Lumber Company for the years 1948 to 1952, both inclusive, on mineral interests owned by the Lumber Company in certain lands lying within the School District. Taxes on the surface rights were neither sued for, nor otherwise involved in any way.

The trial below was in the 80th District Court...

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