McGUIRE v. SADLER

No. 20736.

337 F.2d 902 (1964)

L. L. McGUIRE, Appellant, v. Jerry SADLER, Land Commissioner, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. L. McGuire, Midlothian, Tex., for appellant.

Glenn R. Lewis, Lewis, Blanks, Thigpin, Logan & Steib, San Angelo, Tex., for defendant M. D. Bryant.

J. Milton Richardson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Texas, Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., J. S. Bracewell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellee Jerry Sadler, Com'r of General Land Office.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The district court dismissed this case for want of jurisdiction. We reverse.

L. L. McGuire, the plaintiff-appellant, brought suit in proper person against Jerry Sadler, the Land Commissioner of Texas, and a number of other defendants. In a 27-page complaint McGuire alleged that he is the owner of certain land in Presidio County that the Commissioner, under color of law, is about to sell as part of a conspiracy to deprive him of his land...

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