Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. State

This suit was brought by the State of Texas, through its Attorney-General, to recover of the appellant corporation sixty sections of land which had been located and surveyed for it by virtue of sixty alternate certificates issued July 12, 1877, to the company by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

The grounds of action as alleged in the original petition are as follows:

"1. That said certificates were claimed to be issued and located, as shown upon their faces, in accordance with the provisions of 'An act to encourage the construction of railroads in Texas by donations of lands,'…