Ostrom v. Jackson

SPEER, Justice.

Solon Jackson and his wife, Emma Jackson, instituted this suit in a district court of Rusk County, against J. R. Ostrom, H. A. Pace, Roy Gardner, Randolph Caldwell and G. C. Waldrop, to reform a certain contract entered into between plaintiffs and defendants, Pace and Gardner, so as to conform to a previous oral agreement between the same parties and to cancel a subsequent deed or assignment of mineral rights, made by plaintiffs to them.

As equitable grounds for the relief sought, plaintiffs alleged that they were negroes, without education or experience in such matters, while…