First Dallas Petroleum, Inc. v. Hawkins

DEVANY, Justice.

This appeal comes to us on a writ of error involving a default judgment on an action for fraud. George W. Hawkins, Sr., George W. Hawkins, Jr., and T. Eugene Scott sued First Dallas Petroleum, Inc., and Charles Madison and Robert Barry, individually, claiming fraud in the sale of certain oil and gas interests. All three defendants filed a pro se joint answer. The trial court ordered both plaintiffs and defendants to resolve all discovery and other pre-trial matters by July 26, 1985, and warned the parties that failure to comply might, without further notice, result in the…