Fort Worth Cavalry Club, Inc. v. Sheppard

This is an original mandamus proceeding instituted in the Supreme Court by Fort Worth Cavalry Club, a domestic corporation, against George H. Sheppard, State Comptroller, to compel the issuance to relator of a state warrant in the sum of $1710.00.

It appears from the record that at some time, the record not disclosing the date, relator, as owner and lessor, and the State, acting through its Adjutant General, as lessee, entered into a purported written lease contract, by the terms of which the relator leased to the State, for a term of five years from September 1, 1931, certain real property…