Jasper v. Mays Mfg. Co.

COMBS, Justice.

This suit involves title to several tracts of land in San Jacinto County, Texas. The trial court sustained defendants’ pleas in abatement on the ground that plaintiff, Mays Manufacturing Company, an Arkansas corporation, was engaged in business in Texas without a permit and hence could not maintain the suit. The trial court of its own motion also dismissed the cross-actions of the defendants and all parties have appealed from that order. Attorneys for the appellants, L. O. Jasper et al., have made an accurate and succinct statement of the case in their brief from which we quote…