Halbert v. Terrell
Texas Supreme Court
Original application by Halbert to the Supreme Court for mandamus requiring Terrell, as Land Commissioner, to recognize his rights as an' applicant to purchase school lands. H. L. ICokernot, an adverse claimant of one of the tracts involved, was made corespondent.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Gaines
This is an application to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to receive the application of relator to buy a section of school land and to recognize him as the purchaser thereof. H. L. Kokernot, who is shown upon the records of the Land Office as the purchaser of the land, is made a co-respondent.
The undisputed facts as shown by the pleadings in the case are as follows: On the 28th day of August, 1899, the section of land in controversy, which is section 97 of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company surveys, together with several other sections, was leased to J.…
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