Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Co.

BROWN, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff and defendant are railway companies, duly incorporated under the laws of this State. In 1891 plaintiff had constructed and was operating a line of railway through Brown County, and through or near the town of Brownwood, and had acquired, owned, and was in the possession and use of the land described, operating, its railway thereon.

The defendant was engaged in constructing a line qf railway through-, the same county and town, in a direction to cross plaintiff’s road at said: town of Brownwood. On the -27th of July, 1891, defendant presented, to the county…