Perkins v. Miller & Sayers

Citations

• 60 Tex. 61
• 1883 Tex. LEXIS 262

Syllabus

<p>1. Purchaser op school land — Actual settler.—Under the constitution (art. VII, sec. 6), the actual settler on county school land is secured in his right to purchase the same in quantity not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres. The word “ settlement,” as used in that clause of the constitution, cannot be construed to limit the right of purchase to the amount actually improved, but embraces any amount of land within the limit prescribed. The applicant to buy must be himself a settler on the land to bring himself within the constitutional protection, and he cannot be an actual settler who claims only under another who had resided on the land.</p>