Parker v. Brown & Ricketts
Texas Supreme Court
Sections 1 and 2 of Act of March 4, 1875, for the relief of persons interested in the University lands, etc., are as follows: “Section 1. Be it enacted, etc.
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Sections 1 and 2 of Act of March 4, 1875, for the relief of persons interested in the University lands, etc., are as follows: “Section 1. Be it enacted, etc. That the time for the payment of any sum or sums of money now due or hereafter to become due on and for any lands heretofore sold under an act entitled An Act for the sale and disposition of University lands, approved August 30, 1856, and the act amendatory thereof approved November 12,1866, be and the same is hereby extended until the 1st day of March, 1876; provided, that no person shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless…
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
The land in controversy is the southeast quarter of section 3, league 12, of University land situated in Grayson County, which under the Act of August 30, 1856, was contracted to J. H. Evans, who never complied with his obligation to pay for it." He further failed to comply with the first section of the Act of March 4, 1875, passed for the relief of such persons as had failed to comply with their contracts made for the purchase of such lands under the former law.
On May 22,1875, T. H. Parker attempted to purchase the same land, and executed such an obligation as would…
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