Gulf Coast Water Co. v. Cartwright

GRAVES, Justice.

' The individual appellees, nine in number, were the Rice Farmers. All of them, except Dodd, filed suit against appellant, the Water Company, to have declared invalid, or inapplicable, a certain clause in their 1935 irrigation contracts with the Water Company.

The Water Company filed a plea in abatement, plea to the' jurisdiction, general demurrer, special exceptions, and general denial to this suit.

It also filed cross-actions against four of the Rice Farmers, and original actions against the remaining five, in which it sought enforcement of the clause. Three of the first four…