Sullivan v. State

Findings of Fact

This case was tried by the court without a Jury, and the court made and filed the following findings of fact, which we adopt:

"First. That on the 18th day of April, 1882, the Commissioner of the General Land Office issued to the Austin Northwestern Railway Company certain legal and valid land certificates, each certificate entitling said railroad to 640 acres of land, to be located upon any of the vacant and unappropriated public domain of the state.

"Second. On the 15th day of November, 1883, said railway company made an application to the county surveyor of Hidalgo county to…