Kress v. Soules

This is a suit brought by respondent Soules, the purchaser, against petitioners, Kress and Rouse, the sellers, for specific performance of a contract for the sale of a house and lot in Dallas and for actual and exemplary damages. By an amended petition respondent Martens, to whom petitioners conveyed the property shortly after this suit was filed, and Southern Trust and Mortgage Company, the holder of a lien on the property by assignment of a purchase money note executed by Martens, were made parties defendant. Kathryn Currin intervened, seeking recovery of a real estate dealer’s commission…