Johnson v. Browder

The original bill in this cause was filed by complainant Johnson to secure specific performance of an alleged option to purchase real estate in Morristown, Tennessee. Under the firm name of B. B. Gas Oil Company, complainant and W.H. Browder, who died intestate on October 9, 1942, were, at the time of Browder's death, engaged in business, as partners, selling and distributing oil and gas at 902 West Main Street, Morristown, Tennessee. Prior to the partnership with the complainant Johnson, Browder had been in a partnership conducting the same business with a man named Burnett. In 1941 Burnett…