Teat v. McGaughey
Texas Supreme Court
This was an original application to the Supreme Court, seeking to control the action of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The facts are set out in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Associate Justice.
This is an application to this court for a writ of mandamus to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. It is alleged in the petition, in substance, that the plaintiffs are the heirs of Leroy Wilkerson; that he died in 1836; and that on the 2d day of March, 1838, a certificate was issued, at the instance of the administrator of his estate, to his heirs, for one-third of a league of land; that on the 10th day of November, 1845, they caused it to be located upon a certain tract in the petition described, and that in pursuance of the location they caused the land to…
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