Monroe Cattle Co. v. Becker
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT ' OF THE UNITED . STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. This was a bill in equity to enjoin an action at law for the recovery of the possession of eleven sections of school lands ■in Shackleford County, Texas, and for .the cancellation and annulment of certain patents for the same issued to the defendant Becker.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT ' OF THE UNITED . STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. This was a bill in equity to enjoin an action at law for the recovery of the possession of eleven sections of school lands ■in Shackleford County, Texas, and for .the cancellation and annulment of certain patents for the same issued to the defendant Becker. By an act of the legislature of Texas of July 8, 1879, Laws,' 1879, Special Session, p. 23, as amended by a subsequent act of April 6,1881, Gen. Laws, 1881, p. 119; provision was made for the sale of lands set apart for the benefit of the school…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case involves the construction of the statutes, of Texas with regard to the purchase of school lands, and depends upon the question whether, during the ninety days allowed to the proposed purchaser to make his first payment, it is competent for the surveyor to receive another application for the same land, or rather to permit a person, who had theretofore filed' applications for two parties, to treat such applications as withdrawn and abandoned, and to make other applications in the ñamé of different persons within the ninety days.
No one can examine critically the provisions of the…
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