Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. State

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought in the name of the State of Texas to recover of appellants sixteen sections of land, situated in Nolan County, and within the Texas & Pacific reservation, which was created by special act of the Legislature passed May 2, 1873, entitled “An act to adjust and define the rights of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company within the State of Texas, in order to encourage the speedy construction of a railway through the State to the Pacific Ocean.” 2 Sayles’ Civ. Stat. Append., p. 1939. Recovery was sought mainly upon the ground that the certificates by…