Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Travis County. The State sued the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Eailway Company and recovered judgment for penalties for its failure to comply with an order of the Eailroad Commission requiring it to stop certain of- its passenger trains at Meridian, the county seat of Bosque County, and also obtained a mandatory injunction compelling its observance of such order.
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Application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Travis County. The State sued the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Eailway Company and recovered judgment for penalties for its failure to comply with an order of the Eailroad Commission requiring it to stop certain of- its passenger trains at Meridian, the county seat of Bosque County, and also obtained a mandatory injunction compelling its observance of such order. The judgment was affirmed on defendant’s appeal and thereupon it applied for writ of error, the opinion following being delivered in…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The case concerns an order of the Eailroad Commission, issued under the authority of article 6676, Eevised Statutes, directing the plaintiff in error to stop certain of its trains at Meridian, the county seat of Bosque County, for a time sufficient to receive and let off passengers with safety, for the violation of which at the suit of the State penalties were adjudged against the company, such judgment being affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 169 S. W., 385.
Conceding that the trains in question were interstate trains, it was found by the trial court, with the finding approved by the…
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