Case Name: Mrs. E. E. WHITE, Relator, v. J. T. ROBISON, Com'r, et al., Respondents
Court: Texas Commission of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-03-11
Citations: 269 S.W. 1113
Docket Number: No. 508-4219
Parties: Mrs. E. E. WHITE, Relator, v. J. T. ROBISON, Com’r, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 269
Pages: 1113–1113

Head Matter:
Mrs. E. E. WHITE, Relator, v. J. T. ROBISON, Com’r, et al., Respondents.
(No. 508-4219.)
(Commission of Appeals of Texas, Section B.
March 11, 1925.)
Mandamus.
A. M. Prazier, of Hillsboro, and Black & Morrow and Chas. L. Black, all of Austin, for relator.

Opinion:
POWELL, P. J.
This is an original action in mandamus by the relator to require the land commissioner of this state to reinstate her claim to a tract of public free school land in Glass-cock county, Tex., which the state had sold her, and, without forfeiting her contract as by law required, proceeded prematurely to advertise the land for resale. On the 3d day of March, 1925, the relator filed a motion herein as follows: "Comes now the relator, 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 her petition, and that therefore the further prosecution of this proceeding has become unnecessary. Accordingly relator prays that the cause be .dismissed, at her cost." This case is ruled by our opinions in the cases of Weaver v. Robison, Commissioner, and Watley v. Robison, Commissioner, and which opinions were adopted by the Supreme Court on December 20, 1924. See 268 S. W. 133, 142. In those cases 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 reinstatement of the relator in the instant case by the commissioner followed the decisions aforesaid. We recommend that the aforesaid motion, filed by relator herein, be granted, and this cause dismissed, at her cost.
CURETON, C. J.
Cause dismissed, on motion of relator, at her cost, as recommended by the Commission of Appeals.