from the tit;?1imi.l;; of Dallas,and at the nearestpointsFruitdaleis only one mile fro:,; ',~ecit,y limitsoi'Dallas."Other than this statementfrom your letteran p,hePect made obvjousby tb.emaps that all outsidepoints concernedare vx-y cloee to the Cli~yof Dallas, the while distancecoveredby the operatk1 being; only about 1.3miles,we are n,t advisedwhetheror not the route: traversed outs!deof ?:;?eCity of Dallas are all within its suburbs. We arc not ~l;:~:~?i- cientlyfami.l:;arwith the facls to be able to say that as a matt:;' of ln~!,r all such outsidepofntsare within the suburbsof the City, or that 'ny of tImm are not. The applicstionin i'selfdoes not disclosethe answer Lo the questioneither on? way or the other,as a matter of law.
The Commissioncan he?>-? testimol~yon the question. If the evGk!ce shows conclusivelythat all p~'4a in\,lvedin the operationare eithc* within the city limitsof Dallas or ic' aubl?bs,or if the Commissicaso f;,:.Isupon diquted evidence,then the apk-' ,-riionshouldbe dismisr.ed,s5i:3 the RatI'? 'ati Commissionwould be without jurisX&ion. On the other hand if 'xe evident:, shows beyond any disputethat SOIE parts of the operationi.rould ::?conducted outs?'.de the limitsof Dallas and ::!,a suburbs,or if the Commiss,-1 so fi,rds upon contradictorytestimony,the Commissionwould have jur.i.sdi~ ;~ionto entertainthe applicationupon its :zits. Hon. James E. Kilday, page 3 O-2737
In Woolf v. Del Rio Motor Tramp. CO., 27 S. W. (2d) 874,by the San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals,it was unsuccessfully contendedthat Villa Acma was a suburb of Del Rio. The Court remarkedthat "sincethe statutedoes not seek to definethe word 'suburb',we are left to work out and give to that word theusual,familiarand generallyuuderstoodmeaning, as used in everydaylife."We furtherquote from the opinion: ,I . . . The use of the word suburb in Texas statutesin not new, for We have it used and well definedand understoodin urban homesteadsand other laws. Suburb is definedin Webster'sNew International Dictionary as follows: 'An outlyingpert of a city or tam; a smallerplace adjacentto a city.'"
Regrettingour inabilityto answer yourquestioncategorically we trust that the above my be of some aid to you.
Yours very truly
ATTORNEYGENERALOFTEKAS
s/ Glenn R. Lewis
By Glenn R. Lewis Assistant
APPROVEDSEP 27, 1940
a./GeraldC. Mann
ATTORNEYGENERALOFTEKAS
APPROVEDOPINIONC@iMITTEEBY B. W. B. CHAIRMAN