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HOUSTON & TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY v. TEXAS

No. 406.

170 U.S. 243 (1898)

18 S.Ct. 610

42 L.Ed. 1023

HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY, v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 25, 1898.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.S. Lovett for plaintiff in error. Mr. James A. Baker and Mr. J.P. Blair were with him on the brief.

Mr. M.M. Crane, attorney general of the State of Texas, for defendant in error.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Supreme Court of Texas held in Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company v. Texas, 89 Texas, 340, that, conceding that section six of article ten of the constitution of 1869 did not repeal prior laws granting lands in aid of the defined lines of existing railroad companies, the section did operate to cut off the right to earn lands by the construction...

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