Hamilton v. Gouldy

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The school land in controversy, a tract of three hundred and ninety-seven acres, situated partly in Deaf Smith County and partly in Oldham County, was awarded to appellant December 6, 1905, on an application to purchase it at $2.25 per acre, dated November 14, 1905, made under section 8 of the Act of 1905 providing for the sale of such lands. The appellee had previously applied to purchase the same land under the same Act at $2.00 per acre, the appraised value, but it seems that the Commissioner of the General Land Office had misplaced his application and entirely…