Broadhead Chapman v. Harrell

Appellants brought this suit against appellee, seeking to enforce specific performance of a written contract for the purchase of certain land lying in Grayson county, Tex., and, in the alternative, for damages for its breach. The said contract was executed by Claude Eatherly as agent of appellee to sell and convey to appellants several tracts of land, reciting, among other things, that he was the duly authorized agent of appellee. Appellee answered denying the agency to sell and convey said land and his authority to enter into said contract. Appellants by supplemental petition plead a…