Bullard v. Oatman

This is a second appeal of this case; the case coming before this court on the former appeal under the style Oatman et al. v. Boone, Mayor, et al., 244 S. W. 398. The cause was originally instituted by j’. B. Oatman and W. P. Helscher against Gordon Boone, mayor of Corpus Christi, H. R. Sutherland, -county judge of Nueces county, W. H. Bullard, William Horne, J. C. Houts, county judge of San Patricio county, and various persons whose names were unknown. It was alleged that on September 14, 1919, a storm swept Corpus Christi which wrecked many frame houses and scattered the material in them…