Uvalde Rock Asphalt Co. v. Asphalt Belt Ry. Co.

Petitioner in the Court below, who is plaintiff in error in this court, applied to the judge of the district court of Uvalde county to restrain defendants from building their _ line of railway along and across certain lands in Uvalde county.

Petitioner alleged that it was the owner in fee simple, in actual, open, and notorious possession, and entitled to the possession of said lands, to wit, certain valuable deposits of a mineral on, upon, and under said land, known as rock asphalt; that said rock asphalt is of such a nature, and the deposits thereof so located with reference to the surface of…