Holmes v. Yates

The Supreme Court adopts findings and statement in this case by the Honorable Court of Civil Appeals as follows:

“On February 16 1887, O. W.' Williams, deputy county surveyor of Pecos county, made out original field notes of sections 101 and 102, block 194, Texas Central Railway Company surveys ; the latter section being the. public school alternate of section 101; each of the four lines of said surveys having a length of 1,900 varas. Such field notes were filed .in the general land office March 3d of the same year, and called for án acreage of 640 acres in each section. The commissioner of…