Pullman v. City of Houston

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the District Court of Harris County rendered upon the trial of two suits against appellants, E. Pullman and wife, one brought by the appellee City of Houston, and the other by appellee E. P. Smith, which suits were consolidated and tried as one. The appellee Houston & Texas Central Eailway Company intervened and became a party plaintiff. The object of the suit was to recover from appellants, for the use and benefit of the public, certain real property in the city of Houston in possession of the defendants, and claimed by plaintiffs…