San Antonio Bar Ass'n v. Guardian Abstract & Title Co.

This suit was one for injunction by our petitioners, representing the organized legal profession of the state, to stop allegedly unauthorized or improper joint conduct of the three respondents-defendant related to the practice of law. These respondents-defendant are Guardian Abstract & Title Company, a private corporation doing a title insurance agency and abstract business in San Antonio, Texas, and two attorneys at law, John and Mary McQuown, who are husband and wife and form the law firm of McQuown and McQuown in San Antonio.

The McQuowns own sixty-seven percent of the stock of the…