Sheldon v. Robison

Relator, Joseph S. Sheldon, seeks a mandamus to require J. T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office, to issue to him a permit to prospect for oil and gas on Section No. 102, Block 194, Certificate No. 2302, Texas Central Railway Co. Survey, containing 407 acresj situated in Pecos County, Texas, under the Permit and Lease Act of 1917.

On the 26th day of August, 1914, said section of land, which by. the Constitution of 1876 had been set aside to the public free schools, was awarded and sold to Rube Holmes, classified as “mineral,” and was sold with a reservation of the minerals to the…