Wright v. Hawkins
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Ellis. The case was tried before Hon. Nat. M. Burford, one of the district judges. The subject of building railroads in Texas became a very exciting one as early as 1850. Previous to that time liberal railroad charters had been granted, among which may be enumerated a railroad charter from Galveston to Bed river, granted in 1848 to Eb enezer Allen and others, and another from Harrisburg to the Colorado river, now known as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado…
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Appeal from Ellis. The case was tried before Hon. Nat. M. Burford, one of the district judges. The subject of building railroads in Texas became a very exciting one as early as 1850. Previous to that time liberal railroad charters had been granted, among which may be enumerated a railroad charter from Galveston to Bed river, granted in 1848 to Eb enezer Allen and others, and another from Harrisburg to the Colorado river, now known as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado railroad; and later, the San Antonio and Gulf railroad charter. (San Antonio v. Jones, ante, 19.) After the settlement of…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
—This suit was brought by the appellant against the surveyor of Ellis county, to cause him to survey for appellant two hundred acres of land situated in said Ellis county, which he claimed to be entitled to by virtue of "a file and location made on the 20th day of November, 1857, with that amount of land scrip issued to birn by the commissioner of the general land office, under the provisions of the law of August 26,1856, authorizing the location, sale, and settlement of the Mississippi and Pacific railroad reserve.
The land claimed by the appellant had been previously surveyed on the 31st of…
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