Hays v. Perkins

FINLEY, Chief Justice.

—This suit is for libel, filed in the District Court of Collin County, March 1, 1897, by the plaintiff, C. D. Hays, against Tom W. Perkins, J. M. Lee, J. T. McNulty, R. L. White, and the Western Hnion Telegraph Company for damages alleged in the sum of $10,000. The court sustained exceptions on the part of the defendants, setting up that there was a misjoinder of parties defendant and that the petition set up two distinct causes of action, and for these reasons alone, the plaintiff declining to amend his petition or to elect, the court sustained said exceptions and…