Cree v. Cluck

MARTIN, Justice.

Appellees, J. C. Cluck, D. G. Cluck, S. R. Quck, Darrell S. Cooper, Coy Holt and T. K. Winter, brought suit in Hansford County, Texas, against appellants, George B. Cree, Jr., William R. Cree and Roy M. Hall. In appellees’ petition it is alleged that appellants had set fire to trash. and refuse near a drilling rig while a severe wind was blowing and thereby caused a fire that burned across appellees’ lands and destroyed the native turf, roots and sod and permanently injured and damaged ap-pellees’ lands which lay in Hansford County other than a small part thereof lying in both…