Hulse v. Powell

KEY, Associate Justice.

J. W. Powell brought this suit against Adam Hulse and others, to enjoin them from cutting down and destroying the trees on a tract of land alleged to have been dedicated to the public as a park, said tract of land being adjacent to the town of Ballinger.

The plaintiff’s petition, after alleging that the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company laid out, mapped, and plotted the town of Ballinger, and dedicated the tract of land referred to as a public park for the use and benefit of the public, alleges “that the plaintiff purchased certain lots and blocks in the town of…