Lockwood v. Walker

The appeal in this case is from final decree in favor of complainant in a partition suit.

On the 30th day of June, 1913, Hugh Carter and Fannie. Carter, his wife, entered into a contract with W. F. Walker and W. P. Read whereby Carter agreed to deed to Walker and Read a two-thirds interest in 160 acres of land then his homestead and to allow them to exercise an option which he then held on certain other property. In consideration of this agreement on behalf of Carter, Walker and Read agreed to prospect all of the land for phosphate and in event the land showed a total tonnage of not less than…