International & Great Northen Railroad v. Voss

FISHER, Chief Justice.

-This is a suit by Voss against the railway company to recover $150 penalties provided for by the Act of the Legislature approved April 18, 1901, on page 283 of the session laws of the 27th Legislature, commonly known as the “Johnson Grass Act.”

The appellee recovered a judgment in the justice’s court, from which the appellant appealed to the county court, and there judgment was rendered against it for the sum of $50 for two violations of the law in question, which is the basis of this appeal.

‘ It is alleged in appellee’s claim that the railway company, during the-years…