Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. State

HENRY, Associate Justice.

—In December, 1878, appellant, a railroad corporation, located forty land certificates granted to it by the State upon public land lying in the county of Crockett. The certificates were for 640 acres each, and at the same time appellant caused to be surveyed forty alternate sections for the State. The field notes of the eighty sections were returned and filed in the General Land Office in March, 1879, and in June, 1880, patents were issued to appellant for its forty sections.

The State instituted this suit against the railway company in the form of an action of…