City of El Paso v. Coffin

On November 15, 1902, the city council of the city of El Paso enacted an ordinance which recited that the railway companies operating or building railroads into the city have agreed on plans for a union passenger depot, and that it was necessary that certain streets and parts of streets, and certain alleys, should be closed by the city, and others opened for the public use, and which ordained that certain streets, etc., be abandoned, etc., and granting the railway companies the right to close and use the same for railway purposes after certain abutting property shall have been acquired by…