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GILES v. PONDER

No. 12696.

275 S.W.2d 509 (1955)

Bascom GILES, Commissioner of the General Land Office et al., Appellants, v. Russell S. PONDER et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied February 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Ben Shepperd, Thomas Black, Austin, for appellant.

Kelso, Locke & King, J. R. Locke, J. R. Locke, Jr., San Antonio, J. W. Timmins, Martin A. Rowe, Dallas, Wood & Pratt, Corpus Christi, Wm. E. Remy, San Antonio, Weldon Cabiniss, Rockport, for appellees.

POPE, Justice.

Russell S. Ponder commenced this suit under the provisions of Article 5421c, Vernon's Ann.Civ.Stats., claiming a described area as vacant unsurveyed lands. He sued many parties who claim interests in the land concerned, including the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas and the Attorney General of Texas. The judgment awarded Ponder a tract of land as vacant land, but held that other described lands were not vacant. The Commissioner of the...

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