Capps v. Joiner

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs in the trial court, and defendants in error were defendants in the trial court, and will be referred to as plaintiffs and defendants.

In this suit plaintiffs, L. W. Capps, G. O. Golightly, R. C. McElmury, and the Alexander & Smith Oil Company, sued defendants, C. M. Joiner, individually and as trustee, and H. L. Hunt, trustee, to secure specific performance on the part of C. M. Joiner of his contract, dated October 1, 1930, to assign a certain oil and gas lease. In the alternative plaintiffs prayed for damages for loss of the leasehold…