Liles v. McDonald

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This' appeal challenges the correctness of the ruling of the trial court upon a plea of privilege. The suit was brought in the district court of McLennan county by Mrs. Stella McDonald and others against J. Robert Liles and others to cancel a certain royalty contract or deed by which Mrs. McDonald conveyed to the defendant Liles an interest in the minerals in 41½ acres of land situated in Montgomery county. It was alleged that said deed had been procured from Mrs. McDonald by fraud perpetrated upon her by Liles. The plaintiffs prayed for cancellation of said deed and for…