Glasscock v. Commissioner of the General Land Office
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Travis County. This is an application for a mandamus to compel the commissioner of the general land office to issue a patent on a survey made ])y virtue of a certificate for headright, issued by the board of land commissioners of Jasper county to one Henry P. Pock. The appellant was the assignee of this certificate.
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— Appeal from Travis County. This is an application for a mandamus to compel the commissioner of the general land office to issue a patent on a survey made ])y virtue of a certificate for headright, issued by the board of land commissioners of Jasper county to one Henry P. Pock. The appellant was the assignee of this certificate. The commissioners appointed under the “ act to detect fraudulent land certificates,” etc. [Laws of 1840, page 139], transmitted to the commissioner of the general land office no report, under their own signatures, of such certificates issued in Jasper county as they…
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Justice Hempi-iill,
after stating the facts in the case, delivered the following opinion:
[Mr. Justice Lipscomb,
not having been present at the argument, gave no opinion.]
The difficulties arising in the land office, in relation to which of the documents should be regarded as the true copy of the report of the commissioners, induced the congress to pass a joint resolution for the relief of the citizens of Jasper county, in the following terms, viz.:
“ Whereas, the citizens of Jasper county have been prevented from obtaining their patents to lands, in consequence of frauds having been…
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