De Merit v. Robison

DeMeritt instituted this proceeding in this court to procure . the issuance of a writ of mandamus to the Commissioner of the General Land Office requiring him to accept relator’s applications to purchase two tracts of public land situated in Harris County, each tract containing 80 acres. The relator sought to purchase the land by virtue of the following articles of the Revised Statutes:

“Art. 3498a. All public school, university, asylum and public lands specially included under the operation of this title; all the lands now owned by the State situated within the reservation known as the…