Childress County Land & Cattle Co. v. Baker

KEY, Associate Justice.

Appellant, the Childress County Land and Cattle Company, brought this suit against A. J. Baker, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, and against several other defendants who were sued as individuals, to recover forty-seven surveys of land situated in Childress County.

Among other relief, the plaintiff’s original petition sought an injunction against Baker, as Commissioner of the Land Office, restraining him from selling to the other defendants the land sued for. The court below sustained a plea interposed by the Land Commissioner, and that…