Tucker v. Boyd

*264This is a suit by respondent, Jack Boyd, against petitioners, L. H. Tucker and Jack Tucker, for damages for the breach of an alleged oral contract claimed to be collateral to a written contract of sale and to a deed executed and delivered shortly after the date of the contract by petitioners to respondent conveying a house and lot located in Tyler, Texas. It was alleged that prior to the signing of the contract of sale and prior to the delivery of the deed petitioners orally promised that in consideration of the contract and delivery and acceptance of the deed that they would lower the…