Maddox Bros. & Anderson v. Fenner

HENRY, Associate Justice.

Appellants instituted this suit, charging that the following described land was part of the unappropriated public ■ domain of the State of Texas and subject to location and survey'as such; that they had requested the defendant Fenner, as county surveyor of Bee County, to survey the same by virtue of a valid land certificate tendered him, which he had refused to do, and praying for the writ of .mandamus to compel him to make the survey.

The land is described in their petition as follows:

“Beginning at a point on the east boundary line of the M. F. Lewis survey, the same…