Henning v. Cox

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Brought as a class suit by plaintiffs against defendants, claimed to be joint adventurers with them, the suit was to establish their claims to, and obtain the fruits of, described oil properties of the joint *587adventure. The claim of the suit was : (1) that plaintiffs and defendants were joint adventurers in the development of a block of oil leases; (2) that some of the defendants, though joint adventurers with plaintiffs and obligated to deal fairly with them, had unfairly and in breach of their trust gotten hold of the producing portions of the oil leases and were…