Ford v. Sutherland Springs Land & Town Co.

This suit was filed by Chas. E. Ford and wife and Chas. Morris and wife against the Sutherland Springs Land & Town Company, a corporation, and J. L. Kerr, I. T. Pryor, M. H. Townsend, Semp Russ, A. D. Powers, A. L. Matlock, J. H. Burton, W. E. Nelson, J. C. Nelson, H. P. Nelson, and H. A. Speer. It was alleged that the Sutherland Springs Development Company, a corporation not a party to this suit, had acquired a large tract of land in Wilson county, which it had divided into blocks and lots, streets and alleys, for a town site, and called it New Sutherland Springs. The tract of land was…