Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. State

BROWN, Associate Justice.

The Attorney General for the State-of Texas instituted suit against the plaintiffs in error in the District Court of Nolan County to recover of them sixteen sections of land acquired under the facts hereinafter stated. The trial was before the court, which rendered judgment for the State for the land in controversy.

The facts so far as necessary to understand the question that we deem it important to notice in passing upon this application are as follows: By special Act, approved February 2, 1856, the Legislature of the State-of Texas granted a charter to the…