Legal Opinion

Fort Worth Street Railway Co. v. Rosedale Street Railway Co.

Texas Supreme Court

Decided April 22, 1887No. Motion No. 35PublishedCited by 31 opinions

Motion for attachment for contempt. The following is the motion for attachment forcontempt, viz.: “Fort Worth Street Railway Company, Appellant, v. “Rosedale Street Railway Company, Appellee. “In the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. Appeal from Tar-rant county.

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Motion for attachment for contempt. The following is the motion for attachment forcontempt, viz.: “Fort Worth Street Railway Company, Appellant, v. “Rosedale Street Railway Company, Appellee. “In the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. Appeal from Tar-rant county. “To the Honorable Supreme Court of the State of Texas: “Tour complainant, the Fort Worth Street Railway Company, respectfully represents to the court: “That, heretofore, to wit, on the seventeenth day of September, 1884, your complainant applied to the district court of Tarrant county, Texas, for an injunction to enjoin and…

1Opinion of the Court

Stayton, Associate Justice.

A controversy having arisen between the Fort Worth Street Railway Company and the Rose-dale Street Railway Company as to their respective rights to construct and operate a street railway in the centre of Houston street in the city of Fort Worth, and as to their rights in some other streets, on or before the nineteenth day of August, 1884, both corporations had applied for writs oí injunction, the one asking that the other be restrained from constructing and operating its railway on the disputed ground, and to restrain the interference by the one with the work of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Williams v. PounsTexas Supreme Court · 1877

3Cited by31 opinions

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