The Texas Civil Appeals Reports Volume 63 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...attending the meetings of this committee (right of way committee), but I now call to mind especially one time that I told Mr. Matson in the evening that the committee was going to meet. The time was in the evening, probably 2 o'clock, in the front of the First National Bank, when I informed Mr. Matson, and he told me that he was so busy that he could not attend, or did not expect to attend, these meetings at all when he signed the bond, but for me to go ahead and to represent him, and whatever the committee done, whatever we done, that he would acquiesce in it and that it would be satisfactory to him. The meeting that I spoke to him about at that time was after the railroad had come into or had been running into Hubbard (City), and at the time the means was about exhausted that was in hand, and if my memory serves me right it was in July or August, 1903, possibly July. It was some time after the road had been completed so as to permit trains to run over it. I know that it was in the summertime because those large windows in front of the bank are raised up in the summertime to give ventilation and air, and he was sitting in one of those windows when I was talking to him. I don't remember how many conversations, prior to this one, that I had with Mr. Matson from the time the contract was signed up by the twelve parties whose names appear on it. One reason why that impressed my mind is that I went immediately from the conversation with Mr. Matson to the committee and so informed the committee of Mr. Matson's message. I don't remember now of any definite conversation with him before that time. I don't think Mr. Matson ever did attend any of the committee meetings. I never learned at any time through Mr. Matson...