Tomlinson v. Hopkins County
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. In 1871 Hopkins county had two leagues and fourteen and tWihhíso labors, of unlocated land certificates, being the unlocated balance of four leagues granted to said county by the state of Texas, for purposes of education, by virtue ■ of an act approved .......
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Appeal from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. In 1871 Hopkins county had two leagues and fourteen and tWihhíso labors, of unlocated land certificates, being the unlocated balance of four leagues granted to said county by the state of Texas, for purposes of education, by virtue ■ of an act approved ....... On the 31st day of July,. 1871, the county court of that county authorized its presiding justice, R. H. Beale, to contract with some suitable person, on such terms as he might deem best, for the location of those certificates. On the 24th day of April, 1872, said R. H.…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The material questions raised by the assignment and cross-assignment of errors are: First. Did the court err in cancelling the deed from Hopkins county to 'appellant Tomlinson? Second. If not, then what was the time measure of compensation?
I. The court did not err in cancelling the deed.
The whole policy of the several acts, both of the republic and of the state of Texas, in granting lands for the establishment of a general system of education, was to make the land thus granted an available net fund for this purpose; and it was not intended that any part of it should…
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