The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-09-13
John WATSON WEBB,

u,HE STATE OF TEN AS-To the Sheriff of
i Dallas county, greeting: You are hereby
eoton ~ NJ .h Morrow T" s' resident CITIZEN Of
the county of Washington and state OF Ar
kansas, to be and appear before the district
Court, to he holden in and for the county OF
Dallas, at the Courthouse thereof, in the city
of Dallas, on the first Monday in Octobernext,
and then and there to answer the, petition
against the said NJ. NJ. Morrow, and alleging
in substance as follows, to-wit
That heretofore to-wit: On the l4th day OF
March, "A. d. 1871, by an order OF the Mayor
and Board of Alderman of said city of Dali
las, an election was held on the LIST dav or
April thereafter for the purpose of submit
ting to Il vote of the real estate owners of the
city of Dallas, n proposition to tax the real
estate within the corporate limits of said city
to an amount sufficient to secure the LEGATION
of depot of the Houston and Texas Central
Railway Company, within the corporate
limits Of said city. That thereafter, on the
day and year last above written, after giving
due and legal notice of said election, ana in
pursuance of said order, said election was
held, which resulted in q two-th1rds vote OF
voters of said city of Dallas In favor OF SAID
taxation for the purposes aforesaid. Tnat
thereafter, to-wit: on the 23d day of August,
A. ID. 1872, an order was passed by the CITY
Council of said city, ordering the assessment,
levy, and collection of special tax OF "a
per cent nd valorem upon the real es-
tate situated within the corporate limits or
said city, to be applied to the, payment OF the
purchase money of lands heretofore pur-i
chased by the said city for the purpose OF Sc
curing n location of depot for the Houston
and Texas Central Railway Company, with
i'm the corporate limits of said city, ana for
the incidental expenses of securing and max
ing deeds, etc, to said lands, and collecting
said taxes, and ordering the Assessor and
Collector of said city to proceed at once TO
collect said taxes, according to law, orders
and ordinances of said city, made IN relation
thereto, and the assessment rule heretofore
made by q. w. Cochran. late Collector and
Assessor of said city of Dallas. 4
Tlahj II pursuance of law and said orders
and Finances, ID. King, Assessor and C0llec-
tor o. said city, proceeded to give, and did
give, due and legal notice, to-wil: ten days
| notice by calling upon ana by letter through
| the PostOfiice in the said city, to the defendi
| ant herein, of the taxes and penalty due and
| owing under said assessment for depot pur-
poses, as aforesaid, from defendant TO plant
| IN, to-wit: the sum of sl07 %.
| Said defendant was, at the date of said as
sessment the owner of the following lots or
parcel of land, situated within the corporate
| limits of the city of Dallas, Dallas co., TeX to-
wit: Part of the John Grigsby League survey.
| and being the same lands conveyed TO u. II.
Coombcs by NJ. NJ. Morrow and wife, by decd Z
beginning 60 feet north, ~ west, and l3 fccts
north, 45 east from the south corner of II. Nh
Hawpe's 42l3 acre tract; thence north 42'Y
west, running parallel with said r. NJ.
Hawpe's southwest line $50 varas 10 stakeil
| thence north I5o, east .H% varas to staSe2
thence south 42', east 70 varas TO a ,stake;;s
beginning, contiinins one aerc efland, more
or less, of the value OF $500. Alse, parf OF w,
John Grigsby survey and decided tdsssts1ss1t ,
defendant by Charles Carolion :ntSWife oiis
| the 18th day of September, lS,aC ana being
one-half of the following Described tract: be-
ginning ut the nortn corner OF said tract, NJ
| hickOries bears north 80 east ., varaS, black
| iack !, inches, bears south varas; thence
sorner. tbemcc east lis varas, Stalks IN Me
| Kinney road, post oak II inches, north 10,
! west 81 varas, black jack, south AZ, east va
varas; thence on said road south ii, west 70
the center OF Caruth's branch; thence west Ia
the north corner of n two-acre tract, SOLD by
the said defendant to Robert spears; themes
thence north a. east 20S varas to the begin
ming containing 30 acres. more or less, s.lu
one half of said 30 acres, situated within me
corporate limits Of said city, OF tho value OF
$500. That the total value Of botn oi sulu
tracts of land hhen was, and Is, i,oso, where
on was then, as is still, due ana OWING 70
plaintiff by the defendant, the sum OF sW 90,
| nv the taxes assessed and levied for the pur-
poses aforesaid, and Notwithstanding deiena-
ant has been duly requested ana noiincu 10
nav said taxes, as required by ordinanc
| aforesaid and the same is justly due ana oM
ing, vet to pay the same, or any part Thereon,
though often requested SO 10 40, Inc sala u re.
: fused and still fails and refuses SO 10 20
wherefore plaintiff says that the defendants
ana and ah p ar,oh ha
, fhoy he cited to answer this petition, thai
, plaintiff have Judgment for the said sum o.
taxes due and os o H,,ri iron and n,
further sum of so IS, penalty of 10 per cent
, thereon imposed on delinquent taxpayers b,
the ordinances of said city, and that the iicl
D given by law and ordinances on the real es
: tate of delinquent taxpayers be enforce.
against the defendant, and 10 this end plant
n III prays for an order 10 sell The real es,al.
hereinbefore described, and for costs am
:, for general and special relief
Herein fail not, but have you then ant
U there before said court this writ, with you
:, return thereon, showing how you have exc
cutcd the same.
0 - Witness: John NJ. Laws, Clerk q
! | the District Court of Dallas county
SEAL Given under my hand ana Tn
n ~ seal of said court, in the town q
Dallas, this, the 25th day of June, A. d. 1873.
y, JOHN NJ. LAWS,
Clerk District Court, Dallas county, Texa: