Hudson v. Cuero Land & Emigration Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from He Witt. Tried below before the Hon. H. D. Claiborne. Previous to the 25th of December, 1871, it was agreed between Gustave Schleicher, Fletcher S. Stockdale, and Charles M. Terrill, that they would unite and form the company or corporation afterwards formed and called the “ Cuero Land and Immigration Company,” having its domicile and principal place of business in De Witt county.
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Appeal from He Witt. Tried below before the Hon. H. D. Claiborne. Previous to the 25th of December, 1871, it was agreed between Gustave Schleicher, Fletcher S. Stockdale, and Charles M. Terrill, that they would unite and form the company or corporation afterwards formed and called the “ Cuero Land and Immigration Company,” having its domicile and principal place of business in De Witt county. Under this agreement, Schleicher, acting for himself and his two associates, purchased from the administrator of J. 0. Wheeler’s estate the league of land on which the town of Cuero was after-wards…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The establishing and maintaining of public bridges and ferries where public roads cross navigable streams, lakes, or bays, and the charging of toll or ferriage for passing or carrying travelers over or across the same, has always been held in this State to be a franchise, subject to the regulation and control of the Legislature, or to the municipal authorities to which it has been committed by the Legislature. (See Paschal’s Dig., arts. 632, 1229, 3841, 3860.)
In general, preference is given by statute, in granting *69such franchise, to the owner of the land on the hank…
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