Pittman v. Owens

McCLOUD, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff, Mack L. Owens, sued defendants, John H. Pittman, John C. Bacon, and R. Garrow Wessendorff, jointly and severally, seeking damages and specific performance for the breach of a contract which required defendants to cause certain loan accounts to be removed from the Commercial National Bank of Dallas and transferred to the Commonwealth National Bank of Dallas. When plaintiff rested, the court instructed a verdict for defendants as to plaintiff’s claim for monetary damages. After both parties closed, the court instructed a verdict for plaintiff for specific…