Kuechler v. Wright
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Richardson. On the twenty-eighth of June; 1871, George W. Wright filed in the District Court of Travis county his petition against Jacob Kuechler, Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Richardson. On the twenty-eighth of June; 1871, George W. Wright filed in the District Court of Travis county his petition against Jacob Kuechler, Commissioner of the General Land Office. He alleged that he was the owner of a- valid land certificate (which he described) originally issued for twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, the certificate for the unlocated balance of which issued on the first of December, 1870, for six hundred and forty acres; that on the twentieth of September, 1870, he caused said ■certificate for unlocated…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
This is a suit by mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue-patents to the appellee, George W. Wright, to fractional sections Nos. 32, 36 and 46, in what is known as the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Reservation.
The act to incorporate the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad, passed February 4, 1856, provides, in Section 15, that all the vacant public land within eight miles: on each side of the extension line of said road shall be exempt from location or entry, from and after the time when such line shall be designated by survey, recognition, or otherwise; the…
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