Pierce v. Weaver
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. This suit was brought by appellant for himself and the other white citizens, inhabitants of the city of Sulphur Springs, Texas, against James A. Weaver, A. H. Edwards, E. H. Beale, E. A. Kellogg and F. Z. T. Jackson, on the 8th of August, 1881, in the District Court of Hopkins county, Texas. • Appellant alleges in his petition, in substance, that on the 2d of February, 1867, Dr. O. S. Davis deeded to trustees,…
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Appeal from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. This suit was brought by appellant for himself and the other white citizens, inhabitants of the city of Sulphur Springs, Texas, against James A. Weaver, A. H. Edwards, E. H. Beale, E. A. Kellogg and F. Z. T. Jackson, on the 8th of August, 1881, in the District Court of Hopkins county, Texas. • Appellant alleges in his petition, in substance, that on the 2d of February, 1867, Dr. O. S. Davis deeded to trustees, for the white citizens of Sulphur Springs, four acres of ground in that city, for the purpose of establishing and…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
One of the leading purposes of this suit was to have trustees appointed to supply the vacancies, caused by the death or removal of the trustees named in the original deed made by O. S. Davis, which, on its face, conveyed the land to named trustees, to be by them held forever as a place whereon to *47establish, and maintain a permanent first-class school for the education of the white children of the county.
That deed named three trustees, but provided no manner by which new trustees might be created from time to time as vacancies might occur.
It seems that two of the…
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