Greer County v. State of Texas

KEY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by the State to recover from Greer County, in Oklahoma Territory, four leagues of land, and from a judgment in favor of the State, Greer County has appealed.

The case was submitted in the court below, and is also submitted here on the following agreed facts:

"1. The land sued for comprises four leagues in Hockley and Cochran Counties, and was granted to Greer County as an organized county of the State of Texas, under the provisions of the General Laws of the State, granting four leagues of land to each county of the State for school purposes.

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