International & G. N. Ry. Co. v. Anderson County
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from' District Court, Cherokee County; A. E. Davis, Judge. Action by Anderson County and others against the International & Great Northern Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from' District Court, Cherokee County; A. E. Davis, Judge. Action by Anderson County and others against the International & Great Northern Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. The appellees, the county of Anderson, the city of Palestine, and certain citizens suing for themselves and in behalf of all other like intirested and situated members of the public in the city of Palestine, brought this suit in the district court of Anderson county, Tex., against the appellant company. Properly construing the appellees’ petition in the light of the facts therein…
1Opinion of the Court
8224 Writ of error pending in Supreme Court. The articles of incorporation of the appellant railway company, of date August 8, 1911, and filed with and certified by the secretary of state on August 11, 1911, contain, as far as material, the following:
"Second. This corporation is organized for the purpose of acquiring, owning, maintaining and operating the railroads heretofore forming the International Great Northern Railroad and purchased by Frank C. Nicodemus, Jr., one of the undersigned, at a sale thereof, held on June 13, 1911, pursuant to a decree of foreclosure and sale entered on or…
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