Dodson v. Thomas

J. M. Thomas instituted this suit in the Ninety-Sixth district court of Tarrant county against Harry W. Elliott and numerous other parties, in which plaintiff sought to recover a judgment against the defendant Elliott in the sum of $1,200 claimed by the plaintiff as past-due salaries accruing for services performed as general superintendent of Elliott’s leases. Plaintiff alleged that Elliott was the owner of oil leases on some 14 separate tracts of land situated in Gregg county, and owed other defendants divers and sundry amounts who .asserted liens on the leases for the payment of the…