Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
' ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE SECOND' SU-' PREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. This was a suit instituted by the State of Texas in the Dis.trict Court of Nolan County, Texas, February 3, 1890, to recover of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company and the purchaser, under it, sixteen sections of land of 640 acres each, located in that county by virtue of certificates issued by the State -to the railway company.
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' ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE SECOND' SU-' PREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. This was a suit instituted by the State of Texas in the Dis.trict Court of Nolan County, Texas, February 3, 1890, to recover of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company and the purchaser, under it, sixteen sections of land of 640 acres each, located in that county by virtue of certificates issued by the State -to the railway company. It was alleged that the certificates were issued by the commissioner of the general land office of Texas without authority of law, and ' that the action…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. •
The Supreme Court of Texas held in Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company v. Texas, 89 Texas, 340, that, conceding that section six of article ten of the constitution of 1869 did .not repeal prior laws granting lands in aid of the defined lines of existing -railroad companies, the section did operate to cut off the right to earn lands by the construction of lines not authorized until after the, provision took effect. We have just considered that case, and expressed the opinion that the…
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