Payton v. Love

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The land in controversy is the north half and the southwest quarter of section 22, Lunatic Asylum lands, in Taylor County. S. W. Love inclosed and held the land originally as assignee of purchasers from the State under the Act of 1874, but about January .1, 1897, the Commissioner of the General Land Office declared the sales to these purchasers forfeited for nonpayment of interest, and on February 25, 1897, after having had it appraised and classified to his satisfaction, placed the land on the market as watered agricultural land, at $2 per acre.

March 3, 1897, Love…