Weatherford v. Lee

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Vernon H. Weatherford, appellant herein, against H. L. Lee, appellee, in the District Court of Jim Wells County, seeking to establish the joint ownership between the parties of a lease-hold estate and the property thereon situated, for an accounting and adjustment of the equities, and for partition of the property, or, in the alternative, for judgment declaring appellant to be the sole owner of a house situated on such leasehold estate and entitled to possession thereof.

Appellee’s motion for an instructed verdict was granted and judgment…