Watts & Walker v. Wheeler

HEAD, Associate Justice.

The land in controversy is public .school survey number 810, containing 640 acres, situated in Crosby County. This section was classified as “dry or pastoral land,” and was by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on July 30,1892, leased to appellants for the term of five years, in compliance with the Act of April 28, 1891.

Appellee being an actual settler upon agricultural school section number 8, which adjoined the above number 810, on November 23, 1892, made application in due form for the purchase of said last named section, accompanied with the affidavit,…