Barber v. City of East Dallas

GARRETT, Presiding Judge,

Section B.—When this case was called for trial ¡November 21, 1890, the attorney for the defendant, the city of East Dallas, suggested that since the institution of the suit the charter of the defendant had been repealed by the Legislature of the State of Texas, and that its territory had been annexed to the city of Dallas, by an act approved April.3,1889, which took effect January 1, 1890; that since that time the defendant corporation had not existed, but had wholly ceased, and all of its territory had been added-to the city of Dallas; that by the terms of said Act…