Beek v. Turner

Bayne & Bowler Company, a corporation, originally sued Tom B. Turner, James H. Beek, R. W. King, and some others, as members and stockholders of an unincorporated joint-stock association operating under declarations of trust recorded in the deed records of Harris county, Tex., and known as the Vigilant Oil Company, to recover an alleged balance due of $700.79 for machinery and materials furnished to them for the purpose — which they were alleged to have in fact carried out — of using them in drilling an oil well on a specially described 15 acres of land near the San Jacinto river, upon which…