San Antonio, U. & G. R. Co. v. Hales

This is a suit instituted by appellee, primarily against the railroad company, Duval West, receiver, Word Lee, and J. E. Franklin to recover the sum of $10,539.56 for grading and constructing a portion of the roadbed of said railroad. The pleadings cover 42 pages of the transcript; the second amended petition, on which the cause was tried, having been filed on the day the cause was tried. In that petition A. R. Ponder, receiver, appears as a defendant in addition to the other defendants named. When the cause came up for trial, the suit was dismissed as to Word Lee and J. E. Franklin, and…