Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Wells-Fargo Express Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. The suit was brought by the Wells-Fargo Express Company to enforce specific performance of a contract with the railway companies. A judgment in plaintiff’s favor was affirmed on appeal by defendants, who then obtained writ of error from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.. Justice Williams
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant in error brought this action for specific performance of a writtén contract between it and the plaintiffs in error, The Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, The Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad Company, and the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, a copy of which was attached to the petition and which was originally executed November 24, 1893, to continue in force for twenty-one years from January 1, 1894, and was so modified on March 26, 1906, as to express the intention to eliminate provisions which…
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