Leach v. Brown

This suit was filed by petitioner as a class action against numerous defendants, some eighteen of them being sued by name and as representative of the class. The relief sought was removal of certain instruments as a cloud on petitioner’s title to a mineral royalty interest, and an accounting from two of the named defendants. The named defendants answered and filed pleas of non-joinder of necessary parties. The defendants’ contention, among other things, being that a class action could not be maintained where the grounds for recovery, if upheld, would necessarily have the effect of freeing her…