Moore v. Marines

In this suit appellant, Moore, sought to enforce specific performance of an alleged parol contract to purchase an undivided one-fourth interest in the royalty to be derived from oil and gas operations upon a tract of land situated in Guadalupe county and owned by appellees, Leopoldo Marines and wife, Escolastica Marines.

It was alleged by appellant that he entered into an oral agreement with Leopoldo Marines late in the afternoon of December 28, 1923, whereby he was obligated to pay Marines $3,000 in cash for the interest; that it was further agreed that appellant and the Marines were to meet…