American Cotton Co. v. Collier

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

W. A. Collier, appellee, as plaintiff below, filed his bill on the 7th day of July, 1896, in the District Court of Hill County, against the American Cotton Company as the real party defendant, joining the American Cotton Bale Improvement Company, the Hubbard City Gin and Compress Company, D. C. Ball, and C. H. Botsford, as codefendants, charging all of the defendants with conspiracy, and alleging that on August 22, 1895, Botsford, as the agent of the American Cotton Bale Improvement Company, entered into an agreement with appellee under which the Hubbard City Gin…