Schell v. Terrell
Texas Supreme Court
Original proceeding in the Supreme Court, by Schell, for writ of mandamus against Terrell, as Commissioner of the General Land Office, making A. J. Walcott, who was adversely interested, a corespondent.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Relator applies for a mandamus to compel the Commissioner to accept his application to purchase certain public school lands, which the Commissioner refuses to do on the ground that at the date of relator’s application the lands, which are in the absolute lease district, were included in a valid and subsisting lease in favor of his corespondent. Relator’s attack upon the lease is on the ground that, as originally issued, it was for a term of five years which had expired when he made his application to purchase, but had been changed by the unauthorized acts of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ketner v. Rogan, Commissioner, and SlaughterTexas Supreme Court · 1902
3Cited by2 opinions
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