Clement v. City of Paris
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Lamar County; T. D. Montrose, Judge. Action by R. M. Clement and others against the city of Paris and others. Judgment dismissing the suit, and plaintiffs appeal. Appellants are owners of lots abutting on the streets that surround and front on the “public square” in the city of Paris, and have erected on their property brick and stone business houses. This locality forms now, as it always has, the principal business portion of the city of Paris.
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Appeal from District Court, Lamar County; T. D. Montrose, Judge. Action by R. M. Clement and others against the city of Paris and others. Judgment dismissing the suit, and plaintiffs appeal. Appellants are owners of lots abutting on the streets that surround and front on the “public square” in the city of Paris, and have erected on their property brick and stone business houses. This locality forms now, as it always has, the principal business portion of the city of Paris. The city of Paris, as such, has by. ordinance authorized the erection of a substantial, permanent, two-story building, at…
1Opinion of the CourtLevy, J.
(after stating the facts as above). By treating the ruling of the court as sustaining a general demurrer to the petition, as was the conceded effect of the ruling, we may proceed at once to consider the controlling facts of the case as the petition discloses them, and give the proper legal effect thereto. Lamar county was organized in 1841. In order to give the proper legal effect to the acts of the parties, the act of Congress of the republic of Texas of 1842, and the supplementary act thereto of 1844 (2 Gammers Laws, pp. 823, 918), must be held, as properly argued by appellees’ counsel, to…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Oswald v. GrenetTexas Supreme Court · 1858
- Archer v. Salinas CityCalifornia Supreme Court · 1892
- Lamar County v. ClementsTexas Supreme Court · 1878
- Sanborn v. City of AmarilloCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1906
- City of Llano v. County of LlanoCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1893
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