Wardlaw v. Pace

LESLIE, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court overruling the plea of privilege of defendant, L. J. Wardlaw, to be sued in Tar-rant county, Tex. The parties will be referred to as in the trial court.

This suit was instituted by H. C. Pace and John 0. Ward, to recover damages in the sum of $2,791.20, on account of an alleged fraud claimed to have been committed against plaintiffs by defendant in Stephens county, Tex., through defendant’s alleged agent A. O. Bate-man, who represented to plaintiffs that a well on a certain oil and gas lease owned by defendant and sold by…