Williams v. Texas Midland Railroad

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

—This suit was brought on October 1, 1896, in the District Court of Hunt County, by appellant, Williams, against appellee, Texas Midland Railroad, to recover damages claimed to have been sustained by reason of appellee's removal of its passenger and telegraph stations and depot from the town of Roberts, in said county. The petition, in substance, alleges that the appellee is duly incorporated under the general laws of Texas as a railroad corporation; “that it succeeded to all the rights, privileges, and franchises, and became liable to all the duties, conferred upon…