Whitsel v. Hoover

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

The appellants, George L. Whitsel and eighteen others — non-residents of Texas— the collateral heirs of W. I. Whitsel, deceased, instituted this action in trespass to try title to recover an undivided forty-eight one hundredths interest in certain lands from the appellees, H. E. Hoover, J. W. Sanders, A. V. McQuiddy and G. L. Addison, and to cancel and annul a deed by which the appellants had theretofore conveyed to appellees the interest in the land which they sought to- recover.

The appellants alleged that as to them the appellees were acting in a fiduciary capacity…