Perren v. Baker Hotel of Dallas, Inc.

HALE, Justice.

Appellant, O. J. Perren, sued appellee, Baker Hotel of Dallas, Inc., a corporation, under the Declaratory Judgments Act, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 2524 — 1, to establish the validity of a verbal contract of lease covering a suite of seven rooms in appellee’s hotel for the lifetime of his wife, or during the joint lives of himself and his wife, at a rental of $500.00 per month. He alleged in substance that the verbal contract upon which he relied was entered .into about the year 1940 as a result of negotiations between his wife and Fenton J. Baker who as President and General…