House v. Faulkner
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. The opinion, states the case. The bonds referred to were those to issue under the provisions of a bill which passed two days after-wards through the Texas legislature, chartering the International Railway Company, and providing for a bonus to be given to it by the state in state bonds at the rate of $10,000 for each mile of road to be constructed.
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Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. The opinion, states the case. The bonds referred to were those to issue under the provisions of a bill which passed two days after-wards through the Texas legislature, chartering the International Railway Company, and providing for a bonus to be given to it by the state in state bonds at the rate of $10,000 for each mile of road to be constructed. It may be stated as matter of public history that the bonds provided for by that act never issued, and that Saylor, who seems to have been an agent of one Crawford, whose given name…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.—
This action is based on the following instrument:
“Austin, Texas, August 3, 1870.
“ In consideration of services rendered and of the payment of $1 to us in hand paid, we, the undersigned, for ourselves and in behalf of the corporators of the International Railroad Company, do hereby promise Henry B. Andrews that we will deliver to him or to his order $5,000 in the bonds to be issued in aid of said road by the state of Texas, said bonds to be delivered as soon as the first instalment thereof is issued to the directors of said road by the proper authorities of the…
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