Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Hicks

(after stating the facts as above). By the first assignment of error it is insisted that the attorneys representing appellee, who have a contractual interest in the subject-matter in suit, are necessary parties to the suit, and that it was error on the part of the court to overrule appellant’s plea in that respect. It is believed that the instrument in evidence may he construed only as an assignment of an interest in the cause of action itself. Railway Co. v. Ginther, 90 Tex. 295, 72 S. W. 166. But the attorneys holding the assignment of an interest in the cause of action as such, and who…