Greer County v. Texas

Citations

• 197 U.S. 235
• 25 S. Ct. 437
• 49 L. Ed. 736
• 1905 U.S. LEXIS 1204

Syllabus

<p>The decision in United States v. Texas, 162 U. S. 1, that Greer County was not within the boundaries of Texas did not effect a cession of the territory included in the county from Texas to the United States or amount to a transfer of sovereignty, but was simply a revelation that such territory belonged to the United States. Greer County, Oklahoma, as created after that decison by the act of 1896, 29 Stat. 113, is a corporation created by a different sovereignty from that which purported to create Greer County, Texas, and as such is technically a different person, and does not succeed to land situated elsewhere in Texas granted by that State prior to such decision for school purposes to Greer County, Texas.</p>