Cavanaugh v. Looney
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
The University of Texas is a state institution under immediate control of officers known as Regents, appointed by the Governor, with its principal educational departments in Travis and Galveston counties. An act of the legislature, approved August 30, 1911 (S. B. No. 20, c. 6, General Laws, Texas), undertook to authorize the Regents to purchase or condemn through proceedings in the district courts such lands within those counties as they might deem expedient for extension of campus or other university purposes. Appellants have long owned and used as a residence homestead, twenty-six acres in…
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