Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Campbell

This suit — a vacancy suit involving land in Newton County — is the culmination of proceedings begun and prosecuted under authority of Article 5421c, Vernon’s Ann. Civ.Statutes.

Representing the land in question as being vacant and unsurveyed public school land, appellee Campbell applied to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for a mineral lease on it. The Commissioner refused to grant the application, having concluded, after a hearing, that the land was not vacant- and unsurveyed. Appellee Campbell thereupon filed this suit in the district court of Newton County. Humble Oil & Refining…