Brightman v. Comanche County
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Comanche County. Brightman brought the suit against Comanche County. He had judgment which on defendant’s appeal was reversed and rendered in its favor, and thereupon he obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Plaintiff in error brought this action to recover of Comanche County and its officers part of a section of land which had once been a part of the public school land. Plaintiff asserted right to the land as a purchaser from the State; defendant under a prior purchase made by one Holden, to whose rights it had succeeded. The prior purchase of Holden had been declared forfeited by the Commissioner of the Land Office for nonpa.yment of interest and plaintiff had thereafter regularly bought. The legality of such forfeiture is the only question in the case. It was…
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