Ward Cattle & Pasture Co. v. Carpenter
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Matagorda County. The Ward Cattle and Pasture Company sued Carpenter to recover possession of cattle held by the defendant for impounding fees under the stock law, from the operation of which plaintiff claimed that the county was excepted, and for injunction against such impounding. Judgment was for defendant and was affirmed on plaintiff’s appeal, whereupon he obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The question in the case is whether the Act of the Thirty-third Legislature (chapter 72, page 131, General Laws of 1913) was effective to exclude Matagorda County from those counties of the State entitled to-the benefit of the stock law.
Matagorda was included as one of such counties by the Act of 1909.. This Act was brought forward in the revision of 1911 as article 7235. Hnder it an election was duly held in March, of 1913 in a certain, subdivision of the county to determine whether the stock law should be there put into operation, resulting in favor of the law. An injunction suit assailed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Holman v. Cowden SutherlandCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1913
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