Cox v. Robison
Texas Supreme Court
Original application by Cox to the Supreme Court for writ of mandamus against the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
This is an original suit for mandamus to compel the issuance to the relator by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of an unconditional patent to eighty acres out of a section of land belonging to the public free school fund, situated in Culberson County and being in the “Pacific Reservation,” referred to in Article 3498a, Revised Statutes of 1895.
The relator’s application to purchase, made under the provisions of Title LXXXVII, Chapter 12a, Revised Statutes, 1895, and amend-' atory acts, and not under Title LXXI, relating to the sale of mining claims, or the public lands therein…
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