Southern Surety Co. v. Texas Oil Clearing House

On February 7, 1920, the Texas Oil Clearing House, an unincorporated joint-stock association, acting by its trustee W. P. Mason, recovered a judgment against another association of the same kind, styled Central Stock Exchange, acting by D. W. Young as its trustee for the sum of $4,265. That case was filed in the Seventy-Eighth judicial district court of Wichita county, and was tried before Hon. W. E. Fitzgerald, acting as special judge, by the consent and agreement of counsel for all parties to the suit.

The ease was tried on special issues submitted to the jury, whose verdict was rendered and…