State v. Sullivan

Mr. Judge SMEDLEY

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

This is a boundary case and the particular question for determination is whether a tract of 15.77 acres of land lies within the bounds of, or outside of, the Theodore Slade survey in Montgomery County.

On November 10, 1932, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the authority given him by Chapter 271,

Acts Regular Session of the Forty-second Legislature, leased the tract of land in controversy herein to J. E. Franks as unsold public school land for the purpose of prospecting for and producing oil, gas and…