Thornton v. Ross
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Harris County Court; Roy F. Campbell, Judge. Action by Ollie E. Thornton and another against J. O. Ross and another. From judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
HIGHTO'WER, O. J.
This suit was filed by the appellants, Ollie E. Thornton, joined by her husband, A. N. Thornton, as plaintiffs below, in one of the county courts at law of Harris county, against the Ross Properties, some character of an association, and J. O. Ross, its manager, to recover $500 that plaintiffs had put up with defendants as earnest money to bind them to the performance of an executory contract in writing, by the terms of which they had agreed to purchase from the Ross Properties lot No. 11 in block No. 27, on the south side of Buffalo Bayou r in the city of Houston; and in the…
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