Lufkin Land and Lumber Company v. Terrell

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This is a motion to file a petition for a mandamus against the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The petition which accompanies the motion alleges, in substance, that the proposed relator is a Missouri corporation which has acquired the right to do business as such in the State of Texas; that it was organized for the purpose of buying timber and timbered lands and manufacturing timber into lumber and that it has power under its charter to conduct such business; that on the 25th day of June, 1902, one Frost bought the timber upon two sections of school land…