Case Name: N. A. Moore v. J. T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-04-01
Citations: 114 Tex. 450
Docket Number: No. 4222
Parties: N. A. Moore v. J. T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 450–451

Head Matter:
N. A. Moore v. J. T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office et al.
No. 4222.
Decided April 1, 1925.
(270 S. W., 1115.)
Scott W. Key, for relators Garrett, Maxwell and Moore.

Opinion:
Mr. Presiding Judge POWELL
delivered the recommendation of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.
This is an original action in mandamus by the relator to require the Land Commissioner of this State to re-instate his claim to a tract of public free school land in Palo Pinto County, Texas, which the State had sold him, and, without forfeiting his contract as by law required, proceeded prematurely to advertise the land for resale.
On the 23rd day of March, 1925, the relator filed a motion herein as follows:
"Now comes the Relator in the above numbered and styled cause and respectfully shows to the Court that since the institution of this proceeding, the Respondent, J. T. Robison, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, has voluntarily reinstated the Relator as a purchaser of the land referred to in his petition, and that therefore, the further prosecution of this proceeding has become unnecessary.
"Wherefore, Relator prays that this cause be dismissed at his cost.5''
This case is ruled by our opinion in the case of Weaver v. Robison, Commissioner, and which was adopted by the Supreme Court on December 20, 1924. See: 268 S. W. R. 133. In that ease we held there could be no valid advertisement such as required by law before the lands advertised were forfeited and that an advertisement and subsequent sale of lands already sold and not forfeited were void. The settlement of the instant case by the parties followed the decision aforesaid.
We recommend that the aforesaid motion, filed by relator herein, be granted and this cause dismissed at his cost.
Cause dismissed on motion of relator at his cost as recommended by the Commission of Appeals.
G. M. Cureton, Chief Justice.