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BROWN v. JEFFERSON COUNTY

No. A-11256.

406 S.W.2d 185 (1966)

George W. BROWN, Jr., Petitioner, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY, Texas, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, William C. Harvin, with above firm, Houston, for petitioner.

W. C. Lindsey, Jr., Dist. Atty., Keith, Mehaffy & Weber, Beaumont, for respondents.

NORVELL, Justice.

We granted writ of error in this case primarily for the purpose of settling a point of dissent which arose in the Beaumont Court of Civil Appeals over the proper construction of this Court's holding in Texas & New Orleans R. R. v. Galveston County, 141 Tex. 34, 169 S.W.2d 713 (1943). In considering the validity of a "hold and save" clause in a contract executed by Jefferson County,

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