HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. CAMPBELL

No. 6270.

350 S.W.2d 364 (1961)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. T. A. CAMPBELL, Jr., et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Rehearing Denied October 25, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. F. Whitworth, Jasper, John K. Meyer, Houston, Bill A. Martin, Newton, Wheat & Wheat, Woodville, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, Lewis Lanier, Jasper, Wayne S. Smith, Dallas, for appellants.

Wynne, McKenzie, Stroud, Jaffe & Tinsley, Dallas, Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

This suit—a vacancy suit involving land in Newton County—is the culmination of proceedings begun and prosecuted under authority of Article 5421c, Vernon's Ann. Civ.Statutes.

Representing the land in question as being vacant and unsurveyed public school land, appellee Campbell applied to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for a mineral lease on it. The Commissioner refused to grant the application, having concluded, after...

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