State of Texas v. Sulflow
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis County. Tried below before Hon. Chas. A. Wilcox.
1Opinion of the Court
JEHKIHS, Associate Justice.
In 1882 Melvin, Blum & Blum made application under what is known as the Fifty-cent Act (special session 29th Leg., p. 48) to purchase 289 sections of land in Bailey County, Texas, describing each section separately. Section one is described in said application as beginning nine miles west of the southeast corner of Capitol league Ho. 638, thence east, south, west and north 1900 yrs. Each succeeding section calls to begin on the one next preceding it in numerical order, and is described as being 1900 varas square. The sections are numbered from west to east. Taken…
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