Stolley v. Lilwall

SPEER, Associate Justice.

This is a contest between appellant as plaintiff below and appellee over school section No. 40, block A 1, Hale County, Texas. The following is the evidence introduced by plaintiff. 1. Application of Otto Stolley to purchase his home section No. 54, block A 1, school land; dated September 38, 1898, and filed in Land Office October 1, 1898, with its file marks and endorsements in regular form; applied for as dry grazing land at $1 per acre. 3. Certificate No. 336, K. L. & B. Ry. Co., issued December 6, 1876, for 640 acres of land, by virtue of which said section 54, A…