L. Waterbury & Co. v. City of Laredo
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Nbonan, , The opinion contains so full a statement of the case that but pttle remains to be added aside from reference to the evidence. ¡'4^16 testimony relating to the reasonableness of the contract for ''one-third of the ferry receipts for twenty years as- compensation for professional services was somewhat conflicting. The 'chief contest was regarding the reasonableness of the stipulated Tee.
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Nbonan, , The opinion contains so full a statement of the case that but pttle remains to be added aside from reference to the evidence. ¡'4^16 testimony relating to the reasonableness of the contract for ''one-third of the ferry receipts for twenty years as- compensation for professional services was somewhat conflicting. The 'chief contest was regarding the reasonableness of the stipulated Tee. The power of the official agents of a municipal government to pledge and barter away in a sort of perpetuity for twenty years a designated portion…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
For many years prior to the twenty-second day of December, 1875, the city of Laredo had and exercised the right to operate a public ferry at that place across the Rio Grande; and, at the date mentioned, a private corporation known as the Laredo Ferry Company, assumed to exercise an exclusive right there to operate a ferry. The right so claimed was based on the fact that the ferry company claimed to own the land on the margin of the river where it claimed the right to operate the ferry; that it had a license from the county court of the county, and was also empowered…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Kisling v. ShawCalifornia Supreme Court · 1867
- City of Laredo v. MartinTexas Supreme Court · 1880
- L. Waterbury & Co. v. City of LaredoTexas Supreme Court · 1883
- City of Laredo v. Macdonnell & the Ferry Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1880
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- Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. City of DallasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1915
- Moore v. City of BeaumontCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1946
- City of Galveston v. HillTexas Supreme Court · 1975
- Ashton v. SkeenUtah Supreme Court · 1935
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