Bass v. Fontleroy
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cameron. The District Attorney, at the relation of sundry citizens of Cameron county, filed an information, setting forth the incorporation and grant to the city of Brownsville; the repeal of the Charter ; the continued existence of the charitable trust, and the necessity of the appointment of a trustee to take possession of the trust estate and to administer it.
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Appeal from Cameron. The District Attorney, at the relation of sundry citizens of Cameron county, filed an information, setting forth the incorporation and grant to the city of Brownsville; the repeal of the Charter ; the continued existence of the charitable trust, and the necessity of the appointment of a trustee to take possession of the trust estate and to administer it. The relators then prayed for such appointment of a trustee with power to sell the trust property and apply the proceeds to the erection of a courthouse and jail and the balance for the purpose of education. On the day…
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
On the 24th of January, A. D., 1850, the Legislature of the State of Texas passed an Act incorporating the city of Brownsville, as follows, i. e. “The citizens of “ Cameron county of the State of Texas, residing within the “ limits of that Section of the territory, situated and lying on “ the left margin of the Rio Grande, in the county of Cameron, “ aforesaid, formerly a part of the town tract of four leagues “ of land of the city of Matamoros in the Republic of Mexico, “ are hereby declared a body politic and incorporate by the “ name and title of the city of Brownsville. And all the right…
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