Palmer v. Chandler

Citations

• 47 Tex. 332

Syllabus

<p>!• Vendors’ lien—Pre-emption—Under the statute, a patent cannot be obtained by a pre-emptor, to the land occupied by him, until he shall have established, in the manner pointed out by the statute, that he occupied and. improved the land for three years; and a settler upon public domain who undertakes to sell the land which had been occupied by him less than three years, as a pre-emptor, before his sale and abandonment of it, acquires no lien on the laud to secure tlie note given for the purchase-money as against its purchaser who afterwards acquired title from the Stale.</p>