Coats v. Windham

R. L. MURRAY, Justice.

Appellants, S. T. Coats and N. A. Coats, plaintiffs below, brought suit against ap-pellees, Wyman Windham, E. T. Murphy, James M. Windham, and Wyman Wind-ham, Jr., defendants below, to- recover two-thirds of the net profit realized by appel-lees on the purchase and sale of a tract of standing timber in Harris County.

Appellants’ names did not appear in the deeds in which the timber was bought and sold. Appellants alleged that they actually owned a' two-thirds interest in the timber, and profits, and that their names were omitted from the deeds in order that they could act…