Day Land & Cattle Co. v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. On the twenty-eighth day of March, 1884, John Ireland, then Governor of Texas, and William Walsh, then Commissioner of the General Land Office, issued patents to lands in Greer county amounting in all to 144,640 acres, on which had been located certificates issued under the act of March 15, 1881. Deeds to the land thus patented had, prior to the institution of this suit, been made to a corporation known as the Day…
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Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. On the twenty-eighth day of March, 1884, John Ireland, then Governor of Texas, and William Walsh, then Commissioner of the General Land Office, issued patents to lands in Greer county amounting in all to 144,640 acres, on which had been located certificates issued under the act of March 15, 1881. Deeds to the land thus patented had, prior to the institution of this suit, been made to a corporation known as the Day Land and Cattle Company. This suit to cancel those patents, on the ground that they had been issued without authority…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
This action was brought by'the *535•State of Texas through the Attorney General and the district attorney of the judicial district in which Greer county is embraced. The purpose of the suit is to establish the right of the State to one hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred and forty acres of land, situated in Greer county, and to cancel the patents under which the appellant asserts title to the land. The land was located and patented by virtue of land certificates issued under the act of March 15,1881 (General Laws, 35), which provided for the issuance of land…
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