Ft. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. v. Western Stockyards Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Potter County; J. N. Browning, Judge. Action by the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company against the Western Stockyards Company and others. From a judgment for defendants on a directed verdict, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
This suit was instituted by appellant railway company against the Western Stockyards Company and the Panhandle Packing Company to recover a strip of land 50 feet in width, being a portion of section 137, block 2, A. B. & M. surveys, Potter county, Tex. The strip of land in question, beginning 1,400 feet west of the eastern boundary line of said section at a point 50 feet north of the center of plaintiff’s main track for the southeast corner, thence north 50 feet for the northeast corner, and said strip 50 feet in width extending in a westerly direction parallel wih plaintiff’s main track to a…
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