Kirk v. Barnett

COULSON, Justice."

In 1970 Geneva Worsham and her husband purchased, by executory contract for conveyance or “contract for deed,” a house in Pasadena, Texas from George Kirk and his wife. Both marriages subsequently failed and under the terms of the respective property division agreements Geneva Wors-ham and George Kirk came to own their former spouses’ interests in the property. In 1976 Kirk filed a suit claiming that Worsham was delinquent in her payments under the contract, and therefore in default, and praying that he be awarded money damages and recovery of possession of the property.…