Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1092 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1092

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Dallam County has venue to prosecute for forgery a person who forged a check in El Paso, Texas, which was placed in an El Paso bank for collection through a Dalhart bank which honored the check.
Date: July 19, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1093 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1093

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Potter County retains jurisdiction of a delinquent child who moved his residence to Dallam County where he is alleged to have committed another crime.
Date: July 19, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Spike. (open access)

Railway-Spike.

Patent for a railroad spike, which locks itself in place.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: McKnight, Otey J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight-Shade. (open access)

Headlight-Shade.

Patent for a headlight shade which can be pulled down to block the high beam headlights of a train or car when there is an oncoming train or car.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Green, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seat Arrangement for Automobiles. (open access)

Seat Arrangement for Automobiles.

Patent for the arrangement of the seats in a vehicle, allowing the adjustment of several upright seats into a single bed-like formation, "either for sleeping purposes or for ambulance purposes" (lines 16-17).
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Cornwell, William O., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beet Harvestor (open access)

Beet Harvestor

Patent for improvements and additional features in the mechanical frame of beet harvesting equipment.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Hannum, Philip L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tail-End Light for Automobiles. (open access)

Tail-End Light for Automobiles.

Patent for a tail-end light for automobiles, subway and surface trains, and other motor propelled vehicles which changes color to indicate the speed at which the conveyance is traveling.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Green, John Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History