Holmes v. Coalson

J. B. Coalson, as plaintiff, recovered a judgment against J. V. W. Holmes, for damages for alleged fraud practiced by the defendant upon the plaintiff in a certain trade between the parties, in which Coalson conveyed to Holmes a league of land in Taylor county in exchange for four lots of land in the city of Ft. Worth upon which were situated 32 rent houses. From that judgment Holmes has appealed.

H. H. Allen and W. Y. Rockwell, composing the partnership of Allen Rockwell, real estate brokers, who negotiated the trade for Holmes, were also made parties defendant in the suit, but a judgment was…