Hogue v. Baker
Texas Supreme Court
Original application to Supreme Court for mandamus to the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This is an original application to this-court for a writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to receive and file the field notes of a survey made on behalf of the relator for acquiring a homestead donation under chapter 8, of title 87, of the Revised Statutes. The relator alleges in substance, that he had settled upon a tract of 160 acres of land in Scurry County for the purpose of acquiring a homestead; that it was unappropriated public-domain; that he had made the required application and affidavit and caused the land to be surveyed and…
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