State v. Galveston, H. & S.A. Ry. Co.

In this case there was a non-jury trial, and the judge filed the following conclusions of fact:

“(1) It was admitted upon the trial and in the answer of the defendant, and the court concludes as a fact, that the defendant was a railway corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Texas at the time referred to in the petition; that it owned, controlled, and operated a line of railway extending from the Rio Grande river west of the city of El Paso, through the cities of El Paso and San Antonio to Houston, Tex.; that on said date it operated passenger trains over said line…