Trans-World Bonded Warehouses & Storage, Inc. v. Garza

GADENA, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff, Trans-World Bonded Warehouses and Storage, Inc., appeals from a judgment denying its prayer that it be awarded title to and possession of certain land, and, instead, granting its alternative prayer for specific performance of an oral contract under the terms of which, defendant, Vicente V. Garza, Jr., agreed to convey the land in question to plaintiff.

The first three paragraphs of plaintiff's petition are in the form of a statutory action in trespass to try title. In the fourth paragraph, plaintiff “specifically” alleged the existence of the oral contract of…