Mound Oil Co. v. Terrell
Texas Supreme Court
Original application in the Supreme Court for mandamus against the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the adverse claimant of the lands involved being also made a defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Relator seeks a mandamus to compel J. J. Terrell, Commissioner of the General Land Office, to reinstate the purchases made by W. D. Hoskins and A. C. Hunter of sections 4, 8, 10 and 12, H. T. & B. Railway Company surveys, located by virtue of certificates Nos. 10-343, 587, 10-341 and 427, respectively, situated in Brazoria County, which land belonged to the public free school fund of Texas, and was sold to the said Hoskins and Hunter, as detached land, on the 26th day of June, 1890. It is alleged that Hoskins and Hunter complied with all the requirements of the law in…
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