Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-10
TIE RAILROADS.
An Important Railroad Suit Having LO-
cal Interest to Come up at FL Paso.
The Rapid Transit Project Between Fort Worth
and Dailas-A Chairman Found at Last
General and Local News.

There will come up for trial in the
United States court at El Paso this
month one OF the most important and
interesting trials ever held in the state.
This is the suit of the Pacific Railway
Improvement company VS.. G. NJ. Dodge,
and 1t is expected that there Will be
some racy developments in it. Several
Fort Worth parties figure in the case,
and it has considerable local interes:
A correspondent of the ST. Louis Repub-
rlic at Corpus Christi has been working
up this mutter and wires the Republic
some very interesting statements about
the suit and the parties connected with
1t, Us follows:
1.-THE suit was removed to the United
Statea circuit court from the Ell Paso
district court, and is for the recovery OF
some II 600 acres of land alleged to be
illegally held by Dodge and being the
property OF the Pacific Railway Improve
meut company. Suit was brought to
recover this land in the state courts, and
was removed TO the United States by
DO ge, and from thence was sought to
be dismissed by change of officers in
the Pacific Railway Improvement COM
pnny-that is, Dodge, holding a certain
amount of stock at the instance of one
O'NeiI, held meeting of stock holders
at the call of his stock, and attempted
to disp1ssess the presiding officers of
their t.nctiOns and substitute in their
place certain other parties, relatives,
employees ami benefciaries, who, meet
lug as directors OF the Pacific Railway
a,
mlSsal OF the suit, but the original Off
GERS who brought SUI -MesSrs Frost,
president of the Pacific Railway I'm
provement company, and Adamson,
secretary-refused TO dismiss the suit, as
NAe majority of the executive board had
brought it, and under the charter and
bylaws of the company they were COM
petent to do SO, and only they could dis
miss.
The matter now remains a very pretty
fight as to whether Dodge wants to go
into court and try his opponents, or
through his construction company mani
festation wipe out the officers who
brought the suit and quash the matter
before being brought TO trial.
The plaintiffs claim the land was
bought for the Pacific railway improve
ment company by d contractor named
Adamson, who at the time was acting as
general agent for the company, for the
purpose of securing cross ties on which
TO lay the rail for the Texas Pacific rail-
way essi from Ell Paso, and that the
land was taken in Dodge 'sname. so that
otter the tim Der was cut of II could be
sold aud the proceeds put in as the divi-
deuds of the Pacific railway improve
meut company. Adamson, who exam
in the land, claimed cross-ties enough
could be cut OFF of il 10 pay for the prop
ertv and leave q handsome profit be-
sides, and had saw-mill shipped to
him from the east for that purpose.
The settlement of difficulties between
Messrs. Gould and Huntington, whereby
they agreed to meet at Sierra Blanco,
about eighty-nine miles east and south of
FL Paso, put q sop to track laying and
cutting cross-ties and subsequent de-
structing of the records of the
Pacific railway company by fire
at Fort Worth in 1885 oblit-
Grated all trace of title 10 this land so far
as Dodge knew bur the above company
now claim they have IN their possession
straight evidence showing that the II -
coo acres OF land which they now seek to
recover is their property.
Iha ana IN question was purchased or
Mrs. Mary E. Maverick, who executed
the deed. and cost about S37 600. Its
present value will not fall much short of
So 400 900, or about $500 per acre. 1t
is described as being the richest land in
this state for the cultivation of fruits,
fronting as II does the Rio Grande river
and running in northwesterly course
from Rio Graude City, or Whereabouts.
Your correspondent has been at work
for some weeks getting together these
facts, during which time he has had
access TO all the papers bearing on the
case, and which will be introduced in the