State v. Talkington

This is a suit by the state of Texas to recover as vacant school land in Montague county, from 'the several claimants thereof, the land included within the boundaries indicated on the- accompanying map by the letters C, E, G, K, I, J. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and judgment rendered denying the state a recovery of any of this land, from which judgment it has appealed. The map is practically an exact copy of the maps of these various surveys as same appeared in the general land office at the time of the trial.

The land in dispute, alleged to be vacant, is due to .changes in…