State v. McMurrey Petroleum Corp.

HALL, Justice.

Appellant instituted this suit in the District Court of Smith County against appel-lees, the McMurrey Petroleum Corporation (dissolved) and its stockholders, seeking to recover the sum of $5,607.56, which it alleged was wrongfully paid to the McMur-rey Corporation by the District Clerk of Travis County under and by virtue of a void order of the District Court of said county. The facts out of which this case grew are that sometime prior to November 18, 1936, one Joe I. Dyer and others brought an action in the District Court of Travis County, numbered 55031 on the docket of said…