Dannelley v. Bard

O’QUINN, Justice.

Appellants, John L. Dannelley and his wife, Ila Dannelley, brought this suit in the district court of Webb county, Tex., against ap-pellees, A. E. Bard, John L. Pridgen, W. D. Hicks, Walter J. Daly, O. J. Boehs, and the Aleograph Company, a corporation, for damages, general, special, and exemplary, in the sum of $290,000, alleged to have been sustained by reason of false and malicious statements and acts of appellees, made and done in pursuance of a conspiracy entered into by the appellees: • (a) To wrongfully and unlawfully wrest from appellant John L. Dan-nelley the control…