New Fenfield Townsite Co. v. King

This is a suit instituted by ap-pellee against the New Fenfield Townsite Company and Thomas Goggan, president of said company, to recover damages for the destruction of a growing crop of cotton. A trial by jury upon special issues resulted in a judgment in favor of appellee for $500.

The allegations) of the petition show that appellant agreed to give appellee all the cot- ■ ton he might gather from volunteer cotton on 125 acres of cleared land, in consideration that appellee should clear the mesquite brush off two or three acres on the unimproved part of the land, and that he cleared the brush…