Conley v. Daughters of Republic
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. The Daughters of the Republic brought suit to obtain an injunction restraining Conley and others acting under his authority from entering upon the .“Alamo” property and making alterations -therein. The injunction was granted and perpetuated, and the judgment was affirmed on appeal. The defendants, appellants, thereupon procured writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brown
The plaintiff in error, A. B. Conley, is the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds of the State of Texas. The defendánt in error is a private corporation created under the second subdivision of article 1121 of the Revised Statutes of 1913, which reads as follows:
“1121. The purposes for which private corporations may be formed are:
“2. The support of any benevolent, charitable, educational or mis-’ ■sionary undertaking.”
The charter of the corporation was prepared and filed in accord with the requirements of the law and expressed the purposes of the corporation thus:
“1. To perpetuate…
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