Rawls v. Terrell
Texas Supreme Court
Original proceeding in the Supreme Court on petition Of Rawls for mandamus requiring the Land Commissioner to cancel an award of school land to the corespondent Bogel and award same to petitioner on his bid therefor.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Gaines
This is a petition for the writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to cancel an award of a section of school land to the co-respondent, W. W. Bogel, Jr., and to award the land to relator.
The land in controversy came on the market April 22, 1907. On that day the relator and the co-respondent each had on file in the General Land Office bids for the land—the relator’s being $7.07 for the whole section; those of the co-respondent being $25.04 per acre for the W. % of the N. W. *4 of the section, $10.04 for the E. y2 of the N. W. % of same, and another bid for the E.…
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