City of Laredo v. Martin
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Webb. Tried below before the Hon. Edward Daugherty. Suit by the city of Laredo, brought April 18,1876, to enjoin defendants Martin, Macdonnell, and Hall from maintaining a ferry between the city of Laredo, Texas, and the town of New Laredo, Mexico.
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Appeal from Webb. Tried below before the Hon. Edward Daugherty. Suit by the city of Laredo, brought April 18,1876, to enjoin defendants Martin, Macdonnell, and Hall from maintaining a ferry between the city of Laredo, Texas, and the town of New Laredo, Mexico. The original petition alleged that appellant is the owner of the land on which defendants have established their ferry, being the land, about two square leagues, which was granted to Laredo by the King of Spain. as “ exidos,” and confirmed by the State of Texas; that by virtue of ownership of the land, and of prescriptive and peaceable…
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
The appellant, being plaintiff below, applied to the district judge for an injunction, which was refused, and plaintiff filed a bill of exceptions to such refusal. The filing of the exceptions bears the same date as the filing of the petition, to wit, 18th of April, 1876; but the entry of it in the record does not show that it was during a term of the court the petition was filed and the exceptions taken. Upon a trial of the case in April, 1877, a judgment was rendered, against the plaintiff, that the said corporation take nothing by the suit, and the case is brought to…
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