McDowell v. Terrell

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate the relator as lessee of a certain section of school land in Glasscock County, knoAvn as section 38 of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company surveys. The facts of the case as shoAvn by the pleadings of the parties are as follows: In May, 1900, the relator had the section in controversy under lease from the state. This lease, according to the terms of the contract, was to expire on the 3d day of June of that year. He also had several other sections under lease which…