Hughes v. Rhodes

BROWN, Justice.

Appellant, Everett Hughes, believing that there exists between the north boundary line of S. P. R. R. Company Survey No. 7, and the south boundary line of the R. N. Erwin Survey, in Jack County, Texas, what is commonly known as a “vacancy”; that is to say, a strip of unsurveyed and unsold public lands, had a survey made and filed his application for a mineral permit to issue to him on the tract, which is supposed to be about 15 acres. The Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas refused to issue such permit, and Hughes filed this suit in the district court…