Legal Opinion
Dixon v. Dewhurst
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided August 4, 2005No. 06-04-00079-CVPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Justice CARTER.
A vacancy is “an area of unsurveyed public school land_” Tex. Nat. Res.Code Ann. § 51.172(5) (Vernon Supp.2004-2005); see Cockerell v. Taylor County, 814 S.W.2d 892, 894 n. 2 (Tex.App.-Eastland 1991, writ denied). A person discovering that a vacancy exists has the right, in certain circumstances, to lease or purchase the property at a price fixed by the proper state agency. W.L. Dixon and A.W. Witcher (collectively Dixon) claimed a vacancy existed concerning land in Upshur County and attempted to purchase or lease the alleged fifty-four-acre vacancy. Dixon…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Trapp v. Shell Oil Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1946
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- Tom Baughn and Amy Hetrick, and the Estates of Milton Baughn and Letyr Baughn v. Curtis Capps, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2010
- Tom Baughn and Amy Hetrick, and the Estates of Milton Baughn and Letyr Baughn v. Curtis Capps, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2010
- in Re Fleetwood Homes of Texas, L.P., and Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc., Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2006