Ward v. Townsend

This was an application for a mandamus to compel the *582■commissioner of the general land office to issue a patent upon field notes copied into tbe petition. The commissioner, on the rule to show cause, returns that the boundary between the •counties of Bexar and San Patricio are uncertain, and that the location, claimed by the applicant under surveys from the county of Bexar, is claimed by others under surveys from the county of San Patricio.

When the counties were declared to be sections by the land law of 1837, their boundaries should have been surveyed, or defined so distinctly that neither…