Pure Oil Co. v. Clark

Defendant in error, Cone Johnson Clark, was adjudged to be a person of unsound mind by the county court of Van Zandt county, on- September 18, 1928; on February 14, 1930, he, “joined by his next friend and his guardian ad litem, James M. Shields,” instituted this proceeding in the same court which had rendered the lunacy judgment to set the same aside as a void judgment.

Paul H. Stanford, county attorney, R. Clark, and the Pure Oil Company, a private corporation, were named parties defendant.

It was alleged by defendants in error that said judgment was obtained as the result of conspiracy and…