Bond v. Hancock

This suit was brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover the sum of $600 as compensation for services claimed to have been rendered by appellee at the special instance and request of appellant in assisting appellant to obtain title to a tract of 640 acres of land in Jasper county known and described as Houston & Texas Central Railway section No. 82. The plaintiff declared upon a contract by which the defendant agreed to pay the sum of $600 for the services rendered by the plaintiff, but prayed in the alternative that, in event it should be found that he was not entitled to…