Jones v. McClatchey

This suit was filed by J. A. McClatchey, as plaintiff, against W. A. and J. H. Bacon and J. O. Jones, as defendants, and the parties will hereinafter be styled as in the trial court.

The plaintiff’s suit was to recover the purchase price paid by him to defendants for 32.32 acres of land alleged to be a part of section 11, in block D-2, in Lubbock county, Tex., which the plaintiff claimed had been conveyed to him by the defendants at a time when they did not own it, and therefore he had paid them for property that he did not receive title to.

H. D. Beal intervened in the suit, claiming that he…