Cantrell v. Garrard

The Court of Civil Appeals has made a clear and concise statement of this ease, and we adopt the same, as follows: .

“On the 3d day of February, 1919, the plaintiff, B. E. Garrard, and the defendant J. P. Cantrell and his associates, made an agreement by the terms of which the said Garrard agreed to sell to the said Cantrell and associates ‘an oil and gas lease’ on 20 acres of land in Wichita county, Tex. The land to which the lease was to apply was particularly described and provision made f(jr the examination of the title and payment of the consideration, $50,000, upon approval of the title.…