Gurley v. Pilgrim Oil Co.

This suit was filed in tbe Forty-Eighth district court of Tarrant county by appellee, a common-law trust company, against J. M. Gurley, trustee of the Van Oil Company, based upon a written contract between J. M. Gurley, trustee, and J. W. Car-ruth, trustee. The latter sold his interest therein to Pilgrim Oil Company, appellee. Appellant answered génerally- and specially, denying every allegation in the petition, and denied that the contract .sued upon was the contract executed by the parties, but, on the contrary, was another and different contract, in so far as some of the terms were…