Willeke v. Bailey

Mr. Judge Brewster,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

Doc Willeke, petitioner, sued M. E. Bailey and R. H. Fen-ton, respondents, for the possession of approximately one-half acre of land and for damages for withholding it from him after the expiration of a lease contract. In response to a jury verdict the trial court rendered judgment for Willeke, which was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals and rendered for respondents. 185 S. W. (2d) 456.

Willeke alleged that he had rented the land to Bailey “on or about the______day of January, A. D. 1942,” as a place to…