Hume v. Carpenter
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, McLennan County; J. Walter Coche, Special Judge. Trespass to try title by the Central Texas Improvement Company and W. B. Carring-ton against R. B. Carpenter and others, in which S. L. Hume filed a plea of intervention, setting up the ordinary allegations in trespass to try title. Dismissed as to plaintiffs Central Texas Improvement Company and W. B. Carrington, and judgment for defendants, and the intervener Hume appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
RICE, J.
In 1890 the Provident Investment Company, a private corporation, was chartered and organized for the purpose of buying, improving, and selling real estate, with its principal office in the city of Waco; its directors and officers being prominent business men of said city, Sam Sanger being president and H. N. Atkinson secretary and treasurer during the time of the transactions herein involved. Soon thereafter the company purchased several tracts of land adjacent to the city of Waco, which it plotted into blocks, lots, streets, and alleys as an addition to the city…
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