Phillips v. Burns

This suit is by respondents Marvin Burns and his wife against petitioner Bob Phillips for damages or accounting because of alleged breach by petitioner of the obligations imposed by an instrument in writing executed by both parties, which is both a five year lease of land for farming and an agreement by the parties to become partners in farming operations on the land. After trial before a jury judgment was rendered for respondents against a petitioner for $2,092.21. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed that judgment and remanded the cause on account of error of the trial court in overruling…