Ray v. State

BLAIR, Justice.

Appellee, State of Texas, sued appellant, Worth S. Ray, to cancel an award and sale to him by the Land Commissioner of 183.-47 acres of land in Dallas County as unsurveyed school land, and to remove cloud from the title to the land by reason of such award and sale. The trial to the court without a jury resulted in judgment for the State as prayed; hence this appeal.

Prior to 1931 the land involved was a part of the bed of the Trinity River, a navigable stream in fact and in law. Chicago, R. I. & G. Ry. v. Tarrant County Water Control Dist., 123 Tex. 432, 73 S.W.2d 55. On August…