Succession of Norton v. Commissioner of the General Land Office

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the commissioner of the general land office, requiring him *358■to issue a patent on a claim to land, alleged to be due the succession of the appellant.

The claim is founded, as averred in the petition, on a concession of the date of the 5th of August, 1S30, for one league of land, granted by the government of Coahuila and Texas, as an augmentation to the headright of the deceased, who was a colonist in one of the contracts of the empresario, Stephen E. Austin.

The land was surveyed as is alleged, and the deceased placed in possession…