Schroeter v. Bowdon

KEY, Associate Justice.

C. S. Bowdon brought this suit against G. F. Schroeter upon a written contract, seeking to recover $500 and interest. The material part of the contract reads as follows:

“The said Bowdon hereby rents and leases to the said Schroeter for the period of one year from this date his (Bowdon’s) one-half undivided interest in and to the lower story of the two-story stone building situated on lot Eo. 15, in block Eo. 9, in the city of Ballinger, as shown by the map of the plan of said town made by Thos. King, engineer, and now on file in the office of the county clerk of said…