Kaufman County v. McGaughey

FISHER, Chief Justice.

This is an action by Kaufman County to restrain W. L. McGaughey as Commissioner of the Land Office, and a surveyor appointed and acting under him, to move or disturb the boundary line between Kaufman and Hunt counties as the same was established in 1882 by and through orders and authority of W. C. Walsh, then the Commissioner of the General Land Office. It appears that the plaintiff’s cause of action as disclosed by the petition bases the relief it asks, which is only by restraining orders of the court operating upon McGaughey and the surveyor appointed by him, solely…