Lufkin v. City of Galveston
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Stewart. Suit was brought by the appellee (plaintiff below) on the 3d day of May, 1880, in the district court of Galveston county against the appellant, to recover of him the sum of $1,297.34, with interest at ten per cent, per annum from December 31, 1874, on $1,024.19, and on $251 from the 15th of January, 1875, for the cost of construction of certain sidewalks alleged to have been constructed by the plaintiff, the…
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Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Stewart. Suit was brought by the appellee (plaintiff below) on the 3d day of May, 1880, in the district court of Galveston county against the appellant, to recover of him the sum of $1,297.34, with interest at ten per cent, per annum from December 31, 1874, on $1,024.19, and on $251 from the 15th of January, 1875, for the cost of construction of certain sidewalks alleged to have been constructed by the plaintiff, the city of Galveston, and finished and completed in front of defendant’s lots in the city of Galveston. It was claimed that…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
This suit was pending in the district court when the cases of the City of Galveston v. Heard, 54 Tex., 420, and City of Galveston v. Loonie, 54 Tex., 517, were decided by this court. These two cases, together with the case of Roundtree v. City of Galveston, 42 Tex., 612, and that of Allen v. City of Galveston, 51 Tex., 302, and perhaps some other cases, virtually decided nearly all the questions that were expressly raised by the pleadings of the parties, or that were then much pressed below.
• These cases were evidently before the counsel when this cause was tried in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Roundtree v. City of GalvestonTexas Supreme Court · 1874
- Allen v. City of GalvestonTexas Supreme Court · 1879
- City of Galveston v. HeardTexas Supreme Court · 1881
- City of Galveston v. LoonieTexas Supreme Court · 1881
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- Storrie v. CortesTexas Supreme Court · 1896
- Wright v. StraubTexas Supreme Court · 1885
- Caruthers v. HinesTexas Commission of Appeals · 1927
- Blackmon v. Texas Securities Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1917
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