Short v. W. T. Carter & Brother

Mr. Judge Smedley,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

Defendants in error, the owners of the record title to more than three thousand acres of land in a league of land titled to Andres Morales by the State of Coahuila and Texas in the year 1835, sued plaintiff in error McDonald, Commissioner of the General Land Office, and plaintiffs in error Short, Gholson and Sullivan (together with other parties who did not appeal from the trial court’s order) in the District Court of Polk County, to enjoin the Commissioner of the General Land Office from issuing leases to…