Legal Opinion
Manry v. Robison
Texas Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1932No. 5388PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Cureton
STATEMENT OF THE CASE.
This action for original mandamus is by L. Y. Manry, relator, against the respondent Walker, Commissioner of the General Land Office, to require the issuance of a mineral permit to prospect for oil and gas, under the terms of designated statutes, upon 124.4 acres of land, embraced in an abandoned bed of the Brazos River, in Fort Bend County. The respondent Cooper seeks affirmative relief my way of mandamus to require the Commissioner to sell him the land under certain statutes and laws of the State. The respondents Sam Rosen, E. H. Hammond, Sugarland Industries, and…
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