Storrie v. Houston City Street Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fourth District, in an appeal from Harris County. Storrie sued the street railway company and obtained judgment, from which the company appealed. The appellate court reversed, reformed, and rendered the judgment, and both parties obtained writs of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
This suit was instituted October 23, 1894, by Robert C. Storrie against the Houston City Railway Company and the American Loan and Trust Company of Omaha, Nebraska, and subsequently John H. Kirby as receiver of the said street railway com pany was made a party to the suit. The object of the suit was to recover from the street railway company the costs of paving the streets named in the petition between the rails of the said railroad and six inches on each side thereof, which paving was done by Storrie under a contract with the city of Houston, and for which he…
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