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*1 OFFICE OF THE An’ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
Eonorable E. P..Wapbrll Cotuity Attorney
?isber county Noby, Texas
%a81 sin ,' _
sd dated 'day 14th. 1831, recorded in Vol. 90 on page 545 of the' Records of Flsber county, a deed aa8 xaxde %o 34% aores 'of lend, through the Farm of W. S. CleYelaad. This deed me nade to the County Judge aa8 his suoaeasors in ofrice, for a cash consideration or $700.00,
%ow after this ded was mde along v.$th several other Deeds to land for tbls Blgbt-of- %ay, the State E.i@way Coamlsafon changed its *2 -. .
"mw while tills Doed was 2uldo to the county Judz$ ot fisher Cauntjr 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-aat of lena. to Plsher Gauajj, has mdo a aon- traot to seiU -tfis tradt of land ~of vhioh this i%33 aoreo is a part, but he or 00~~88 aannot fmks..
.tltle to the land until the Iioed natter is oloarefl it?."
3nsoB upon tha abtive faotii pea ask our opinloa .'~: di;o ha5 t1t1o and oontrol or ti:is plmpert~.
we, W, 9. Clovelend, and wlt0, i20~ie or the county 0r Fisher, mats or Terns, oonslderatioci or tha WZ.R of BOYBII hundred . (&%OolirO) Eidlaro to ug paid and.c+eour& by i%ohar CounC7, ~Tsxao, ae I?ollowet~ -~. _ .~~_ -__-_-._--_.-.------..---- *3 ‘. - 70 In Zitaher. county, Texa8. . . .* ;;‘o vioh to you ror suberitting’a thank m4mrAAdum
this question. '&%have orrrtSul.ly eYA?dAOd the as tie11 +x8 other pertinent proYb 9~,7tad tharaln 116 or tha &wised cl011 ‘iiile stntut.toa as AineAded.
"All deeds, &Fante rnd oonveyanoee he+ tofare or hereafter Jade an& duly~ aairnorladge4, or proven, and reoorded ae other doeb¶s 0r 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 tipis of the U4OtltiOA t!Wsof in tho landa oonveyed end. ma intQa6od thereby tObe ~~.
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xrti101.5 1.577, E.C.S, read5 40 P0mmi1 *4 .- - c
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conveyud. Nothing don,tainsa In thIs~artIole shall authorize any oum~&3rIoners oourt to dispose of anr.lands given, 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 prescribed by the- ZXattrts. Fergason v. Ealrsell, 47 Tex. 421.
It cannot donate any real eatate oS the county to any perscn for any purpose. llhe language of Chief Justicq Fisher, speaking Sor: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 cases at'bar and, we quote the saze as decisive 04 the quest 1 on 'before us; *The commIseioners* court of the
countr, oseu~y towards it property only,a trust relation, audtihay OEUl only dIt3pose oS.It3 property In the manuer required by law, and Sor purpases~that oru 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 arsouot to a donation. St is 'a trust eetate,'and the prinoiples of equity wIllnot pa&t thsm to bra liberal and gslnarous,with propertg,thep do.~not own,.and whioh they hold In tru0t for p~blio. plrpafm?. ' . . ."
-ft ie ok opI&n that only Fisher County~may dispose of the ~property In question. Burther,,saId proparty aan be disposed OS only in Ireaforinity with ArtIol~e 157.7, supra.
NEY GIW~L Lee Shoataw Assistant L;:eaw