Opinion
Civil Action No. 5:02-CV-0168-C
February 3, 2004
JUDGMENT
The Court, having granted plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and denied the cross Motions for Summary Judgment of Defendant Annette Haney ("Haney") and Defendant Taxing Districts of Hale County, City of Abernathy, Abernathy Independent School District, Farm to Market, and High Plains Water District ("Taxing Districts"), enters the following judgment:
IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the following actions are invalid as being in violation of the automatic stay issued in Case No. 95-50856, filed on October 2, 1995, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division, and convey no legally enforceable interest in the property described as, "All of the South 10 feet of Lot No. 8 and all of Lot No. 9 in Block 154 of the Original Town of Abernathy, Hale County, Texas" ("the Property"):
(1) The unauthorized tax suit, styled Cause No. B3929-9702, filed on behalf of the Taxing Districts on February 24, 1997, in the 242nd District Court in and for Hale County, Texas;
(2) The judgment entered on May 12, 1998, in the tax suit referenced above;
(3) The tax sale of the Property on September 1, 1998, by the Hale County Sheriff to Haney for the amount of $6,150; and
(4) The sheriff's deed issued pursuant to the tax sale referenced above.