Doeppenschmidt v. International & G. N. R. Co.
Decision Date | 08 May 1907 |
Citation | 101 S.W. 1080 |
Parties | DOEPPENSCHMIDT v. INTERNATIONAL & G. N. R. CO. |
Court | Texas Supreme Court |
F. J. Maier, for appellant. S. R. Fisher, S. W. Fisher, J. H. Tallichet, J. M. King, and N. A. Stedman, for appellee.
Certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District. The statement and question are as follows:
We are of the opinion that so much of the act as allows a recovery of actual damages by an adjacent landowner against a railroad company for the spread of Johnson grass from the right of way of the company is not inoperative because not expressed in the title. We here insert the act, including its title:
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