Staplin v. Vesely

BRICE, Justice.

The Commissioner of,Public Lands issued to the appellee, in consideration of $32, an oil’lease upon lands conceded by the parties to be owned by the United States, being a numbered 16 section in an unsurveyed township. Presumably this land, when the township is surveyed, will become the property of the State under the provisions of the Act of Congress of 1910, authorizing the people of New Mexico to organize a state government, commonly known as “The Enabling Act.” The appellee brought proceedings to recover the $32 paid for such lease under chapter 99, New Mexico Laws 1931,…