State Ex Rel. King v. Lyons

CHÁVEZ, Justice,

dissenting.

{92} The Land Commissioner is not simply an auctioneer charged with the responsibility to sell public trust lands. The Commissioner is a trustee of public lands with fiduciary responsibilities to preserve, protect, and manage trust lands so as to make the lands productive for the benefit of the trust beneficiaries to whom he owes an undivided loyalty. The majority has eliminated a seldom used, but occasionally necessary and effective land management strategy available to the Land Commissioner, which can increase the value of the trust corpus and make management of…