Dowlin v. Boyd

The opinion of the court of Civil Appeals in this case is reported in 284 S. W. 636, where a very full statement of the case can be found. As the case has reached the Supreme Court, only a brief statement is necessary. This is a suit wherein the heirs at law of David Jackson, deceased, filed a suit in the district court of Wichita county, Tex., the petitioners being the plaintiffs in error here, against J. P. Boyd and J. S. Owens for-damages alleged to have accrued to them as such heirs by reason of the alleged fact that the defendants in error had perpetrated a fraud on their ancestor David…