Cowan v. Mason

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is in lieu of our opinion announced on January 8, 1968. The appeal is by plaintiffs-appellants, R. T. Cowan and others, including Sarah Byrens, seeking relief by way of an equitable bill of review from a judgment in favor of T. B. Mason and others, based upon an instructed verdict for defendants-appellees.

The suit was instituted by appellants on behalf of themselves and more than 500 parties as members of a class seeking to set aside a judgment rendered against them on October 25, 1945, in Cause No. 3625 in Wheeler County, Texas, styled W. J. Johnston et al. v. E. L.…