Barrow v. Boyles

This is a suit for mandamus brought by appellant against J. S. Boyles, county surveyor of Harris county, to compel him to make a survey of land in that county claimed by appellant to be public land set apart to the permanent free school fund of the state, and for which appellant had filed application for purchase under the terms and provisions of article 5323, Rev. St. 1925. The suit was brought under the second section of this article of the statute.

The defendant Boyles impleaded a number of persons, appellees herein, who were in possession of the land, claiming title thereto under a grant…