La Roe v. Davis

DENTON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment. The appellee filed the case, seeking to recover $4,000 which he had placed in a depository bank as evidence of his good faith in carrying out a parol agreement to purchase land from appellant. It is admitted that the sales contract was never reduced to writing. Although the First State Bank of Happy, Texas, depository bank, and T. H. Campbell, the bank president, were originally made parties to the suit, they were subsequently permitted to tender the $4,000 into the registry of the trial court. The bank and Mr. Campbell are not…