Breeding v. Anderson

In this case respondent Anderson, as plaintiff, brought a suit in a district court of Harris County, Texas, against S. W. Breeding, Marshall H. Stone, Hydrocarbon Production Company, ' Columbian Carbon Company, Howard S. Cole, W. C. Kneale and The Texas Company, petitioners herein, and who were defendants in the trial court. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. Plaintiff in his answer to the application for writ of error states that his cause of action was a three-pronged affair as follows:

“(1) To recover damages for wrongful conspiracy to defraud plaintiff of…