Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Barker

Defendants in error Mrs. Suda Barker, M. H. Pickering, and W. M. Pickering sued plaintiffs in error Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company and thirty-one others to recover from the Coal & Oil Company one hundred thousand dollars in damages, and for specific performance of a contract for the mineral development of a tract of 112 acres of land. The petition on which the judgment was sought is so vague that a full statement thereof is necessary. The petition alleged that since December 31, 1919, the defendants in error Mrs. Suda Barker, M. H. Pickering, and W. M. Pickering, together with Bascom…