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GUARANTY PETROLEUM CORP. v. ARMSTRONG

No. B-9260.

609 S.W.2d 529 (1980)

GUARANTY PETROLEUM CORPORATION and Brownsville Navigation District, Relators, v. Bob ARMSTRONG, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kleberg, Dyer, Redford & Weil, M. Harvey Weil and Clayton J. Hoover, Corpus Christi, Renfro & Renfro, Daniel R. Renfro, Brownsville, for relator.

Jack B. Giberson, Austin, Mark White, Atty. Gen., Milton Richardson and Gordon Houser, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, for respondent.

POPE, Justice.

The question presented is whether the Brownsville Navigation District, relator, had statutory authority to act as the State's agent for the execution of an oil and gas lease that the District made with relator Guaranty Petroleum Corporation. We hold that the Navigation District had the authority, and we grant the prayer for a mandamus ordering the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and file the lease.

In 1939 the State patented...

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