OFFICE OF THE An’ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
EonorableE. P..Wapbrll
CotuityAttorney
?isber county
Noby, Texas
%a81 sin ,' _
sd dated 'day14th. 1831, recorded
in Vol. 90 on page 545 of the'Records of Flsber
county, a deed aa8 xaxde%o 34% aores 'oflend,
through the Farm of W. S. CleYelaad. This deed
me nade to the County Judge aa8 his suoaeasors
in ofrice, for a cash considerationor $700.00,
%ow after this ded was mde along v.$th
several other Deeds to land for tbls Blgbt-of-
%ay, the State E.i@way Coamlsafon changed its
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"mw while tillsDoed was 2uldo to the county
Judz$ ot fisherCauntjr aad his ~~ooeaa~m Sn
orrice, It was pr00urra at the epeoial inmuioo
ma tWeoticm or the Ytato Xi&may cefazulet?l~n
for atate Ifi&way l?o.7%
“yqm the.& w, ;;*Clt%Y!3lfmd who sold this
tr-aatof lena.to Plsher Gauajj, has mdo a aon-
tradt of land ~ofvhioh this
traot to seiU -tfis
i%33 aoreo is a part, but he or 00~~88 aannot fmks..
.tltleto the land until the Iioednatter is oloarefl
it?."
3nsoB upon tha abtive faotiipea ask our opinloa
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di;oha5 t1t1o and oontrol or ti:isplmpert~.
we, W, 9. Clovelend,and wlt0, i20~ie
or the county 0r Fisher, mats or Terns,
oonslderatiocior tha WZ.Rof BOYBIIhundred .
(&%OolirO)Eidlaro to ug paid and.c+eour&
by i%ohar CounC7,~Tsxao,ae I?ollowet~
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669
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70 In Zitaher. county, Texa8. . . .* -
;;‘o vioh to thank you ror suberitting’a m4mrAAdum
this question. '&%have orrrtSul.ly eYA?dAOd the
9~,7tad tharaln as tie11+x8other pertinent proYb
‘iiile 116 or tha &wised cl011 stntut.toa as AineAded.
"All deeds, &Fante rnd oonveyanoeehe+
tofare or hereafterJade an& duly~aairnorladge4,
or proven, and reoordedae other doeb¶s0r iwn-
7ajanoe, to my otnuxty,or to the courts or
comlaoioners Or, aog aowty, or 0ny other aax-
ROA or persona, by whatover iom of oonvayanoe,
ror the we 5nb b0writ of any oounty, qu0.l bo
go04 eAd Vtiid to Teat in suoh @tmnty'in.fas
aiQplo or otherwise all suoh right, title, intersot
imd estate he the $mntor la ouy auoh inetmmmt
had at the tipisof the U4OtltiOA t!Wsof in tho
landa oonveyed end.ma intQa6od thereby tObe ~~.
ooaveyOd.Q
xrti101.5 1.577, E.C.S, read5 40 P0mmi1
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Eooorable8.,F. CAmpbell, Bage 4
conveyud. Nothing don,tainsa
In thIs~artIole
shall authorize any oum~&3rIonersoourt to
dispose of anr.landsgiven, donated or granted
to such odunt~ for the 3upose of eduaatkon
in any othar mxter than shall be directed
by law."
In this oonnsotion,na quote IroD the ease if
L,lSzlO
county V. KJUnTl48,~B~~l.,eo E.-UT.
549, as fal1owB.t
I . The eount~ cszulct dlveat itl3el.f oi
title ~~a'l.and
sxoapt in the method prescribedby
the-ZXattrts.Fergason v. Ealrsell, 47 Tex. 421.
It cannot donate any real eatate oS the county
to any perscnfor any purpose. llhelanguage of
Chief JusticqFisher, speakingSor:thIs court,
In ths case OS Llano Co. v. Johnson~(decrided.’
Jab. 16, 1895) 29,S.W. 30, is peculiarly :
a2plIoable to'the Sacts OS the casesat'bar and,
we quote the saze as decisive 04 the quest1on
'before us; *The commIseioners*court of the
countr,oseu~y towards it property only,a trust
relation,audtihay OEUlonly dIt3pose oS.It3
property In the manuer required by law, and Sor
purpases~thatoru in keeping with the trust they'
represant. .'l!hey
hare no~rlght to donate the
eountp groserty, or diapoee OS it, so as to
virtually arsouotto a donation. St is 'atrust
eetate,'andthe prinoiples of equity wIllnot
pa&t thsm to braliberal and gslnarous,with
propertg,thepdo.~notown,.andwhioh they hold In
tru0t for p~blio.plrpafm?.' . . ."
-ft ie ok opI&n that only Fisher County~maydispose
of the ~propertyIn question. Burther,,saIdproparty aan be
disposed OS only in Ireaforinity
with ArtIol~e157.7,supra.
NEY GIW~L Lee Shoataw
Assistant
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