Paddock v. Bray

EIDSON, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought in the court below by appellee against appellant to cancel two deeds executed by him to appellant, upon the ground that they were executed without consideration. Appellee in his petition alleged, in substance, that appellant proposed to him that they jointly buy a certain piece of property in Paris, Texas, known as the Richards Hotel, stating that he had a talk with Richards, the owner, and that he would sell for $5,000, but that he would not take less, and that there would be a profit in the property at that price, and proposing that he would…