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JIMMY SWAGGART MINISTRIES v. ARLINGTON

No. 2-86-010-CV.

718 S.W.2d 83 (1986)

JIMMY SWAGGART MINISTRIES, a Louisiana Nonprofit Corporation, Appellant, v. CITY OF ARLINGTON, and Arlington Independent School District, and Dick Rhodes, Assessor-Collector for the City of Arlington; and Lanier Wilson, Assessor-Collector for the Arlington Independent School District and Larry Hammonds, Assessor-Collector for the Arlington Independent School District and the County of Tarrant, and Reed Stewart, Assessor-Collector for the County of Tarrant and the Tarrant County Appraisal Review District, the Appraisal Review Board of Tarrant County and Vinita Tribble, as Supervisor of the Exemption Section for the Tarrant County Appraisal District, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

October 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Robert Meyers III, Dallas, for appellant.

John C. Stewart, Asst. City Atty., Arlington, Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Munn & Collins, S.G. Johndroe, Jr., Gerald Summerford, Perdue, Brandon & Fielder, C. David Fielder, Fort Worth, for appellees.

Before HOPKINS, FARRIS and HUGHES (Retired, Sitting by Assignment), JJ.

OPINION

HUGHES, Justice (Retired, Sitting by Assignment).

Appellant, plaintiff below, appeals from the trial court's denial of its motion to reinstate its suit after it was dismissed for want of prosecution.

We affirm.

Appellant filed suit in January of 1978, contesting appellee taxing authorities' failure to recognize as tax-exempt certain real and personal property it owned which was used in connection...

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