Sims v. Barnes

Appellants bring these appeals from post-judgment orders awarding costs to plaintiffs-appellees.

These cases arise from two similar quiet title suits involving more than one hundred defendants. Appellants were not parties to the original actions. Subsequently, appellants were made party defendants, and they contested the actions. Prior to final judgments, as stated by appellants, “Plaintiffs-appellees made peace with the primary defendants to the original causes who had vigorously contested the matters, namely Humble Oil and Refining, J. F. Jackson, Francine Warren Dills, the Youngs of…