Whatley v. Cato Oil Co.

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

Dan E. Whatley instituted this suit in the district court of Jack county against the defendants, the Cato Oil Company, Inc., A. L. Cato, J. A. Cato, Virgil Cato, Calla S. Wasley, and -James H. Wasley, to recover an undivided one-fourth interest in a certain leasehold estate and for an accounting of the business of a joint adventure he asserts he was engaged in with the defendants.

He alleged that, on all the dates material to- the controversy, A. L. Cato was the president of the defendant corporation who, with Virgil Cato and Calla S. Was-ley, were stockholders of said…