Stevens v. Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Eighth Supreme Judicial District. Suit by H. B. Stevens and others against the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company, in which W. W. Mills and others intervened. Judgment for defendant against plaintiffs and interveners. Affirmed as to plaintiffs and reformed and affirmed as to interveners by Court of Civil Appeals (1G9 S. W. 644), and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLENDON, J.
This suit involves the proper construction of three deeds, executed, respectively, on January 25, 1881, June 8, 1881, and April 9, 1881. The conclusions we have reached do not require a full statement of all the issues presented in the several applications for writs of error. A more detailed statement will be found in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, 169 S. W. 644.
In the deeds of January 25 and June 8, 1881, the grantors were Thomas T. Gantt and David Rankin, acting in their capacity as trustees under the will of Robert Campbell, deceased, joined in by Virginia J. Caippbell and Hugh…
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