O'Neal v. City of Sherman

HOBBY, Judge.

—Appellants, who are husband and wife, sought to *183enjoin the city of Sherman, incorporated under the general incorporation act, and W. 0. Connor and others, who had contracted to furnish said city a system of water works, from boring a large number of wells upon a certain strip of land 50 feet wide and about 1000 feet long, which appellants had conveyed oif their homestead to the said city a few days before “for street purposes and none other,” the deed expressly stipulating that the same rights and no higher should pass to the city than would have been acquired had the city…