Sulphur Springs & Mount Pleasant Railway Co. v. St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Co.

HEAD, Associate Justice.

On November 22, 1889, appellant filed-its third amended original petition in the form of an action of trespass to try title, but specially pleading the facts relied upon by it, to recover from appellee the title and possession of the right of way upon which is located the line of railway now in the possession of and operated by appellee between Sulphur Springs and Mount Pleasant, in this State.

The facts set forth in appellant’s petition are, briefly, that in 1881 the Texas & St. Louis Railway Company, a corporation organized under the general laws of this State,…