School Land — Mustang Island — Application to Purchase.
The law providing for the sale of the public domain situated on Mustang Island (Act of April 24, 1907, Laws 30th Leg., p. 320) having required a separate application for the purchase of each surveyed tract, a bidder whose application complied with the law was entitled to an award of the tract, although a higher price had been offered by one offering to purchase the same with other tracts embraced in one application. (P. 488.)
MR. JUSTICE WILLIAMS delivered the opinion of the court.
The mandamus applied for is granted for the reason that relator was the only bidder for the land whose application complied with the law, the co-respondent having applied, in one application, to purchase several separate tracts.
Mandamus granted.