Zimmerman v. First National Bank in Dallas

OPINION

WILSON, Justice.

First National Bank in Dallas brought this action as executor of the estate of Murray Samuell, deceased, for specific performance of a contract between Sam-uell and appellants by which it was alleged appellants agreed to deliver corporate stock. Alternatively it prayed for a money judgment, which was rendered on a jury verdict.

By the contract Samuell and another agreed to assign to appellants their rights resulting from an offer of sale of “mineral interest land” in Tennessee in exchange for 100,000 shares of the corporate stock of American Hydrocarbon Corporation to…