Palestine Water & Power Co. v. City of Palestine

BROWN, Associate Justice.

The city of Palestine instituted suit in the District Court of Anderson County to forfeit the franchises granted by it to one Gray and his assigns, which afterwards became vested in the defendant the Palestine Water and Power Company. The case was tried before the judge, a jury being waived, and he filed very elaborate findings of fact, from which we make the following condensed statement as applicable to the question presented by the application for writ, of error.

On June 7, 1881, the city of Palestine, a municipal corporation duly organized under the general laws of…