Davis v. McCauley

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

School section 180, block No. 2, Gray County, is the subject of this controversy. The land was awarded to M. McCauley, January 20, 1900, upon his application, dated October 2, 1899, and filed in the General Land Office two days later, to purchase it as dry grazing land at $1 per acre. The validity of.this sale was disputed by A. E. Davis, who brought this suit, relying upon two subsequent applications of his own, one dated November 14, 1900, in which he offered to purchase the section as dry grazing land at $1 per acre, and the other April 8, 1901, in which he…