Juencke v. Terrell, Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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1. ““This is a motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of mandamus against the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The facts relied upon for the grant of the writ, briefly stated, are as follows: In the year 1904 the relator, desiring to purchase a tract of 640 acres of land in Liberty county under the act of April 15. 1901, amendatory of the sixth section of the act of B'ebruary 23, 1900, which set apart the unappropriated public domain of the state to the public school fund and provided for its sale, filed his application to purchase, caused a survey to be made by the surveyor of the county, and the application and field notes to be returned to the Land Office. For the purposes of this opinion it may be assumed that all the requirefhents of the statute were complied with. The Commissioner refused to approve the field notes, and to classify and value the land, and to place it upon the market, because the survey was ‘in conflict with what appears to be a prior and incomplete grant of a league of land made by the governments of the states of Coahuila and Texas to Phillip P. Dever.’ The petition further alleges, in substance, that E. M. Vaughan and F. P. Works claim to be owners of, or to have some interest in, the tract sought to be purchased, and that they claimed under the incomplete grant before mentioned. ■ “We are of the opinion that, where there is a dispute as between the state and another party as to the title to a tract of land, the Commissioner cannot be comp”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southern Pine Lumber Co. v. Consolidated Louisiana Lumber Co.

2. “Our conclusion is that section 6 of the act under construction applied only to such lands as appeared upon the maps and records of the General Land Office not to be claimed by other parties, and to such as had been adjudged to the state, if ever so claimed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barrow v. Boyles