Price v. Bates

CONNER, Chief Justice.

—The appellant Price instituted this suit to recover the north one-half of section 16, in block 3, surveyed by virtue of certificate 1108, issued to the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company, for the benefit of the public free school fund. A trial resulted in a judgment for appellee.

The undisputed facts show that the land in controversy had been duly sold to one Snyder in April, 1889, and that appellant on August 8, 1896, acquired the Snyder title. The Snyder purchase, however, was duly forfeited by the Commissioner of the General Land Office' July 20, 1899, for…