Maxcy v. Boyles

John W. Maxcy brought this suit against J. Stuart Boyles, as county surveyor of Harris county to compel him, as such surveyor, to make and send to the general land office field notes of a tract of land in Harris county which Maxcy claimed to be a vacancy lying between the east line of the Heels &' Tro-baugh league and the west line of the Edward Shipman survey, which he claimed to be land belonging to the public free school fund which he had the right to purchase.

In his petition Maxcy alleged that no part of the land is included within the boundaries of the Heels & Trobaugh, or any other…