Legal Opinion
Lawyers Trust Company v. City of Houston
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 25, 1962No. A-8567PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Justice.
This is a trespass to try title suit. On the 12th day of August, 1926, W. T. Carter Lumber & Building Company, executed an instrument wherein it was recited that the company had acquired title to certain lands in the H. B. Prentiss, Blas Berrera and Joseph Kopman Surveys in Harris County, Texas, and had plotted the several tracts so acquired into lots and blocks, to be known as “Garden Villas”. The instrument, subject to certain reservations, dedicated unto the public certain described portions of such tracts for park and other purposes, all of which was delineated upon a map…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Benavides v. HuntTexas Supreme Court · 1891
- Stevens v. Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1919
- City of Barnesville v. StaffordSupreme Court of Georgia · 1926
- Wisdom v. MinchenCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1941
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. DunmanTexas Supreme Court · 1889
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Russell v. City of Bryan, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1996
- Webb v. City of Dallas, Tex.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002
- King v. City of DallasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1964
- City of San Antonio v. Guido Bros. Construction Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1970
- Town of Palm Valley v. Johnson, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2000
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