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CAVANAUGH v. LOONEY

No. 107.

248 U.S. 453 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 142

63 L.Ed. 354

CAVANAUGH ET AL. v. LOONEY, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 13, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph Manson McCormick, with whom Mr. Francis Marion Etheridge was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. B.F. Looney, Attorney General of the State of Texas, and Mr. C.M. Cureton, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Texas, for appellees, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

The University of Texas is a state institution under immediate control of officers known as Regents, appointed by the Governor, with its principal educational departments in Travis and Galveston counties. An act of the legislature, approved August 30, 1911 (S.B. No. 20, c. 6, General Laws, Texas), undertook to authorize the Regents to purchase or condemn through proceedings in the district courts such lands...

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