Case ID: tex_101/html/0534-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Gaines", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MAT, 1908.
    R. V. Davidson et al. v. Galveston. Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company et al. R. V. Davidson et al. v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas et al. R. V. Davidson et al. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company et al. R. V. Davidson et al. v. International & Great Northern Railroad Company et al. R. V. Davidson et al. v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas et al.
    No. 1635.
    No. 1636.
    No. 1637
    No. 1638.
    No. 1639.
    Decided May 6, 1908.
    Taxation—Injunction—Adequate Remedy—Suit Against State, Case Followed.
    The rulings in Stephens v. Texas and Pacific Railway Company. 100 Texas, 127, followed and held decisive of these cases. (P. 535.)
    Writs of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District in five several appeals from Travis County.
    The defendants • in error each brought suit against Davidson. Attorney-General and John W. Stephens, Comptroller, ■ and John W. Robbins, Treasurer of the State, to enjoin the collection of a tax, and appealed from a judgment in favor of defendants. The judgments having been reversed and rendered in favor of appellants, the ■appellees obtained writ of error.
    
      Robert V. Davidson, Attorney-General, and Wm. E. Hawkins and Jewel P. Lightfaot, Assistants, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Baker, Botts, Parker & Garwood, for the Galveston. Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company et al.
    
      Thomas J. Freeman, for the Texas & Pacific Railway Company,
    
      
      J. W. Terry, for the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Eailway Company et al.
    
      T. S. Miller, for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Eailway Company of Texas. /
    
      N. A. Stedman, for the International & Great Northern Bailroad Company.
    
      E. B. PerTcins, for the St. Louis Southwestern Eailway Company of Texas.
   Mr. Chief Justice Gaines

delivered the opinion of the court.

The above styled cases involved the same questions which were decided in the case of Jno. W. Stephens et al. v. Texas & Pacific Ry. Co., decided by this court on November 9, 1906 (100 Texas, 177). That case was argued orally and it was understood that the argument applied to the present cases. For the reasons given in the opinion in that case, in the foregoing cases the judgments of the Court of Civil Appeals are reversed and judgments of the District Court affirmed.

Reversed and judgments of District Court affirmed.