Texas-Mexican Railway Co. v. Locke
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before Hon. G-. H. Hoonan. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Chief Justice.
This action was brought by appellant to compel the surveyor to survey certain lands located by it by virtue of genuine land certificates of which it was the owner.
Persons claiming the lands covered by the locations were with the surveyor made defendants, and no question is made as to the right of appellant to have the surveys made and field notes returned to the General Land Office if the lands were vacant and unappropriated public domain.
The locations were made on and subsequent to January 27, 1882.
The defendants who claim the lands allege that all the lands located by…
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