Davis v. Woolverton

GRAVES, Justice.

This suit arose under the “Vacancy Act of 1939”, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, article 5421c, section 6. The present appel-lees, private claimants thereof as titled land, sought against the present appellants, the State of Texas and Sam W. Davis, maker of “Mineral Application 35812” relating thereto, the cancellation of an order —pursuant to such application — of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated October 13, 1942, finding to be vacant unsurveyed school land a tract of 921 acres, described as lying between the Edley Ewing Survey, on the east, and the James…