Henderson County v. Shook

Citations

• 51 Tex. 370

Syllabus

<p>Statutes construed—Preemptor—School land.—Pour leagues of school land were surveyed for Henderson county in December, 1856, and the survey recorded in the county in which the land was situate; the field-notes were not returned to the general land office until May 27,1874; the patent issued March 8, 1875. B settled on the land as a preemptor in July, 1873. In September, 1875, he brought an action of trespass to try title against Henderson county for one hundred and sixty acres of the land : Held, That the patent passed the title, and the land was not subject to preemption.</p>