Fox v. Robison
Texas Supreme Court
Original application by Fox to the Supreme Court for writ of mandamus against the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The application named as respondents, in addition to the Commissioner, T. M. Maes, and the Sun Company, as adverse claimants of permit to prospect for minerals on public land. The Sun Co. disclaimed interest.
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Original application by Fox to the Supreme Court for writ of mandamus against the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The application named as respondents, in addition to the Commissioner, T. M. Maes, and the Sun Company, as adverse claimants of permit to prospect for minerals on public land. The Sun Co. disclaimed interest. John L. Wortham, C. C. Crocker, H. C. Davis, and J. J. Strickland, by leave, filed pleas of intervention, claiming right to permits by applications filed after the Land Commissioner had declared the permit issued to Maes cancelled.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pierson
The relator instituted this proceeding in this Court to compel respondent J. T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office, by mandamus, to accept his application and to issue to him an oil and gas permit, in terms of and conditioned as required by the law, based upon his application of date November 9, 1916.
Relator’s statement of the case is admitted by respondents to be correct, and same is as follows:
“April 11,1916, respondent Maes filed with the Clerk of the County Court an application for the right to prospect for oil and gas on 144^4 acres known as the Jonas Alltmont tract, in…
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